Monument to Dante and Beatrice

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The Monument to Dante and Beatrice by Giovanni Battista Comolli is a sculpture from 1810 located near the Moorish kiosk. The work, commissioned by Duke Melzi, represents the great poet Dante Alighieri with his beloved Beatrice. The sculpture is inspired by the eighteenth canto of the Paradise of Dante's Divine Comedy and represents Beatrice consoling Dante about the prophecy of exile, indicating to him a superior justice. This sculpture is believed to have inspired Franz Liszt in the composition of the piece Dante Sonata.

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