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The monument to Virgil is located in front of the port, in the gardens of Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II.
The creation of the monument dates back to 1985: "I accepted this task to commemorate the bimillennium of Virgil – wrote the author Floriano Bodini (Aleph 1986) – to testify, through a large sculpture, my connection with the themes, with the epic and everyday meanings of this great poet. I instinctively imagined the sculpture in white Carrara marble, a material loaded with the suggestions of the greatest classical tradition from Phidias to Moore. In this sense, I believe the choice of symbols such as the helmet and Nike, the olive tree, the horse, the lamb, to signify the contrast between peace and war, good and evil, the passage of days and the dramatic contrasts that continually affect them, is vital and current. The placement of the sculpture has a precise meaning in its relationship with the sea, the eastern sea of Aeneas, which saw the last hours of Virgil."
The creation of the monument dates back to 1985: "I accepted this task to commemorate the bimillennium of Virgil – wrote the author Floriano Bodini (Aleph 1986) – to testify, through a large sculpture, my connection with the themes, with the epic and everyday meanings of this great poet. I instinctively imagined the sculpture in white Carrara marble, a material loaded with the suggestions of the greatest classical tradition from Phidias to Moore. In this sense, I believe the choice of symbols such as the helmet and Nike, the olive tree, the horse, the lamb, to signify the contrast between peace and war, good and evil, the passage of days and the dramatic contrasts that continually affect them, is vital and current. The placement of the sculpture has a precise meaning in its relationship with the sea, the eastern sea of Aeneas, which saw the last hours of Virgil."