Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum’s Café G
An introductory note on the menu of the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum’s Café G:
“Isabella Stuart Gardner’s love for the medieval extended to literature as well as to art, and she was particularly devoted to the great Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). Gardner was a member of the Dante Society and collected several rare copies of the Divine Comedy, including a manuscript of the poem written within a century of the author’s death. She stored these precious books alongside a death mask of the poet in the ‘Dante Case’ in the museum’s Long Gallery. … We hope you enjoy this special menu, inspired by Inferno. It features fiery hot peppers in a variety of different forms. […]” —Café G Menu (originally posted in 2013; no longer available).
Contributed by Nancy Vickers
Sighting Citation:
“Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum’s Café G.” Dante Today: Citings and Sightings of Dante’s Works in Contemporary Culture. Elizabeth Coggeshall and Arielle Saiber, eds. October 8, 2013. https://www.dantetoday.org/sightings/isabella-stuart-gardner-museums-cafe-g/.Related Sighting
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