Where is the Monument to Dante Alighieri in the photo?

The Monument to Dante Alighieri is located in Florence's Piazza Santa Croce. Sculpted by Enrico Pazzi in 1865, it was part of the triumphant celebrations for Dante's 600th anniversary, which coincided with the first year of Florence's reign as capital city.

The monument's construction was complex. We know of the sketch's display since 1856, a period in which the expression of disdain attributed to the poet's face clearly referred to Italy's servitude to foreign domination.

In 1857, a National Committee was formed—considering the patriotic values it expressed rather than the artistic value of the work—and launched a public subscription for the monument's construction. The aim was to donate it to the City of Florence so that it could be placed in a public square, as "atonement for the exile imposed on the great poet by its citizens."

Once the money had been collected (among the subscribers were Giuseppe Verdi, Alessandro Manzoni, Bettino Ricasoli and Giosuè Carducci) and the statue had been completed, the city council, after an initial hypothesis that it would have been placed in Piazza Vecchia di Santa Maria Novella (now Piazza dell'Unità Italiana), decided to place it in the centre of Piazza di Santa Croce, in direct relation to the basilica, the "Pantheon of Italian glories".