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Statue of Dante The Statue of Dante Alighieri (Italian: Monumento a Dante Alighieri) is a monument to Dante Alighieri in Piazza Santa Croce, outside the Basilica of Santa Croce, in Florence, Italy. Erected in 1865, it is the work of the sculptor Enrico Pazzi. [1]. “Hidden in Plain Sight” this week focuses on Dante Alighieri’s statue in Dante Park, at the corner between Broadway and West 63rd Street, in front of Lincoln Center. Sculpted by Ettore Ximenes and dedicated on September 14, 1921, it is one of the “Barsotti’s Five” that the banker Carlo Barsotti financed by raising money from the Italian community: five statues of notable Italians.

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Dante Alighieri, the subject of the statue, was born in Florence in 1265, between 22nd May and 13th June and died on 14th September 1321 in Ravenna. He was a poet and a writer and he is considered the father of the Italian language.. The New York branch of the Dante Alighieri Society had intended to erect a Dante monument on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Italian unification in 1912. Carlo Barsotti, editor of Il Progresso (the first Italian daily newspaper in the United States), urged subscribers to contribute towards the creation of the statue.