Florence - House of Dante Casa di Dante

The houses that belonged to the Alighieri family are in Via Dante Alighieri. According to Florentine tradition one of them was the birthplace in 1265 of Florence's greatest poet, Dante Alighieri, who did not exactly find favor with his native city. Dante opposed the attempts by Pope Boniface VII to incorporate Florence and the whole of Tuscany into the Papal States.

When Charles de Valois was summoned to Florence by the Pope to treat for peace, Dante, as leader of the Ghibellines, was exiled from the city.

The building was rather haphazardly renovated in the 19th century. Some rooms contain photographs, editions of the "Divine Comedy", reproductions of Boticelli's drawings for Dante's work and portraits of Italy's greatest poet.