Abstract:Known only through a small number of drawings and photographs as well as a single model, the Danteum is arguably one of the most enigmatic architectural projects by a renowned architect of the twentieth century. Commissioned in the late 1930s as a center for the study of the poet Dante Alighieri, the Danteum was also conceived by its architects Pietro Lingeri and Giuseppe Terragni as a monument to the poet's particular vision for a renewed imperial Italy, which seemed finally to have been realized by Mussolini… Show more
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