With the patronage and support of the National Committee for the celebration of the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, the collaboration between the Galileo Museum and the Uffizi Galleries is renewed in the creation of an event of great originality, which concludes the many initiatives of this Dante year . The exhibition is curated by the Deputy Director of the Galileo Museum, Filippo Camerota, flanked by a panel of scholars who are part of the scientific committee of the exhibition.

Taking its cue from Galileo's academic lectures on the extent and place of Dante's Inferno - where the scientist defined the poet "choreographer and architect" - the exhibition frames Dante's scientific skills in the culture of his time, tracing the profile of Alighieri as doctor, abbacist, geométra, 'geologist' and cosmographer. The steps of the Comedy, the Convivio and the Questio de aqua et terra are illustrated through the exhibition of artistic works, manuscripts, three-dimensional models and multimedia products that illustrate the cosmological system, physical geography and spiritual geography of Dante's works.

The sections of the exhibition ideally replicate the tripartite division of the Comedy . The exhibition itinerary is marked by three rooms representing the three canticles. In the first, Inferno, the visitor finds himself immersed in the bowels of the Earth; looking up towards the domed roof he sees the lands that emerged from the inside, that is to say from the point of view of Lucifer, whose immense body is suspended at the top of the great conical chasm that houses the souls of the damned. In Purgatory , the hall is covered by the starry sky of the southern hemisphere, where Dante imagines himself once he has gone out "to see the stars". In the last one, Paradiso, the visitor finds himself suspended between the material world, reproduced on the floor according to the Ptolemaic system, and the spiritual world, represented on the dome by the angelic hosts that whirl around the very bright point from which everything originates and towards which everything is stretched out.

Exhibition opening: Tuesday to Sunday from 08:15 to 18:30.