Description

This commemorative medal measures about 4.6 cm in diameter, was made manually in scale 1:1 without automated reduction processes and, subsequently, was reproduced in limited series and enriched by electro galvanization and finally brushed by hand.
The medal is shipped in a practical handmade blue velvet effect bag with a certificate that in addition to guaranteeing the authenticity shows the serial number.

Straight
Reported in three-dimensional form the representation of the half-bust of Dante Alighieri (Florence, between May 21 and June 21, 1265 – Ravenna, night between 13 and 14 September 1321), was a poet, scholar, politician, scholar of philosophy and theology. Dante Alighieri represents an entire culture, namely that which had been formed since the twelfth century when, in the wake of new knowledge coming from the Greek-Byzantine and Arab world, the Latin West acquired a knowledge hitherto unknown. His artistic activity, thanks to which he is considered the father of the Italian language, ranges from poetic and philosophical production to political and linguistic-literary treatises.

Verso
the back shows a representation of the Divine Comedy, allegorical-didactic poem of Dante Alighieri, written in terzine of endecasillabi (then called by antonomasia terzine dantesche) in the Florentine vernacular. The poem is the fantastic story of the journey made by Dante, through the three realms of the underworld; the journey to the afterlife is a widespread theme in the Western and Islamic Middle Ages, but Dante derived little or nothing from them, referring rather to Virgil’s Aeneid. The declared purpose of the poem is to bring men back to the path of goodness and truth, through the representation of the punishments and rewards that await sinners and good men respectively in eternal life.