From Hell to the Empyrean Sky. Dante’s World between Science and Poetry

Taking its cue from Galileo’s academic lectures on the measurement and site of Dante’s Inferno – where the scientist defined the poet “chorographer and architect” – the exhibition, conceived by the Museo Galileo of Florence, will frame Dante’s scientific skills in the culture of his time, tracing the profile of the poet as a physicist, abbacist, “geométra”, “geologist”, and cosmographer. The sections of the exhibition ideally replicate the tripartite division of the Divine Comedy.

The exhibition features large three-dimensional models, immersive multimedia projections, high-definition facsimiles of manuscripts and original works that include paintings, drawings, prints and world maps with the representation of the earthly paradise.