The Danteum is an unbuilt monument proposed by a scholar of Dante, approved by the Benito Mussolini's Fascist government, designed by the modernist architect Giuseppe Terragni. However, in the end about all that remains now are some sketches on paper, scraps of an architectural model of the project and pieces of a project report (Relazione), written by Terragni.
The structure was meant to be built in Rome on the Via dell'Impero. The intention was to celebrate the famous Italian poet Dante and extol the virtues of a strong fascist state that bases its foundations on the glory of imperial Rome.
The residues of the project give us the unfulfilled dream of Terragni for a monument to Dante, in which the Divine Comedy was projected in an architectural scheme.
The Danteum is an unbuilt monument proposed by a scholar of Dante, approved by the Benito Mussolini's Fascist government, designed by the modernist architect...
at the behest of Mussolini's fascist government, Terragni designed the Danteum, an unbuilt monument to the Italian poet Dante Alighieri structured around...
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2023-08-01. Schumacher, Thomas L. (1983). Terragni e il Danteum 1938 [Terragni and the Danteum 1938] (in Italian). Roma: Officina Edizioni. p. 21. "Restauran...
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Thomas L. Schumacher's Terragni's Danteum (Princeton Architectural Press, 1985), in which he comments: "...the Danteum does not 'illustrate' the Divine...
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