Bronzino portrait of Dante goes on display at Uffizi Gallery

(ANSA) - Florence, July 7- A portrait of Italian poet Dante Alighieri by Florentine mannerist painter Agnolo Bronzino went on display at Florence's Uffizi gallery on Tuesday, in the year that marks the 750th anniversary of Dante's birth.
    Bronzino painted "The Allegorical Portrait of Dante" in 1532-1533. It was commissioned by merchant banker Bartolomeo Bettini as one of three paintings of Italian literary figures that also included portraits of Petrarca and Boccaccio. "It seemed important to me that in 2015, when we are celebrating 750 years since the birth of Alighieri, that also the Uffizi was among the places that pay tribute to the poet's memory," said Uffizi Director Antonio Natali.