The Dante death mask plays a key role in Dan Brown’s Inferno novel.
This precious object is preserved in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, most specifically in a small andito (hallway) on the first floor, between the Apartments of Eleanor and the Halls of Priors.
Dante Alighieri is the most illustrious and famous citizen of Florence.
Dante presence is everywhere in the city: in the place where his house once stood, in the little church where he met Beatrice, in the Baptistery where he was baptized and in many other places.
In the birthplace of Dante Alighieri, the father of the Italian language, today there is a building rebuilt in 1911 that houses the Casa di Dante, the Dante House Museum.
