The poet Dante Alighieri, who wrote the famous Divine Comedy (Divina Commedia) during the medieval times, may have lived in this house inence Flor. Dante's House is a small museum dedicated to Dante's work laid out in a historical progression of the poet's life. The museum is located in the historic center of Florence.

His masterpiece La divina commedia (The Divine Comedy) (1307–21) is an epic account in three parts of his journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, during which he is guided part of the way by the poet Virgil; on a metaphorical level, the journey is also one of Dante’s own spiritual development. Other works include De vulgari eloquentia/Concerning the Vulgar Tongue (1304–06), an original Latin work on Italian, its dialects, and kindred languages.

Dante was born in Florence, where in 1274 he first met and fell in love with Beatrice Portinari (described in La vita nuova (New Life) (1283–92). His love for her survived her marriage to another man and her death in 1290 at the age of 24.

In the first rooms are exposed a characteristic miniature of the Battle of Campaldino (June 11 1289) and tales and paintings of the historical and military events that Dante Alighieri is tied to. The last floor of the tower hosts a collection of antique copies, and in different languages, of the Divine Comedy, the masterpiece of the most famous poet in the world.

Open : 9.30 - 12.30; 15.30 - 18.30
Closed on: Wednesdays