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Moreover, Dante&#8217;s face has more youthful features. The detached fresco, dating back to the <strong>mid-fifteenth century<\/strong>, which was originally located in Villa Pandolfini near Florence where portraits of &#8220;Illustrious Men and Women&#8221; were depicted, will be the protagonist of the e<strong>xhibition in Forl\u00ec (Musei San Domenico, from April 1 to July 11)<\/strong>, Dante the vision of art, for the celebrations of the seven hundredth anniversary of his death. The painting, which is part of the Uffizi collections, will then be exhibited in Castagno d&#8217;Andrea, in the Florentine town of San Godenzo, in Mugello, the painter&#8217;s land of origin and stage of Dante&#8217;s exile, and then return permanently in the rooms of the former church of San Pier Scheraggio, belonging to the Galleries. 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