Canapone monument, Marble monument in Piazza Dante, Grosseto, Italy.

The Canapone monument is a white marble sculptural group on a tall inscribed pedestal in Piazza Dante. The tallest central statue depicts Grand Duke Leopold II of Lorraine, who turns his gaze left toward a sorrowful woman representing the Maremma; she supports a dying child on her left thigh. With his right hand the duke holds a naked older child who crushes a dying snake, which is also bitten by a griffin, the symbol of Grosseto.

Sculptor Luigi Magi completed this work in 1846 to commemorate efforts that transformed the Maremma region through land reclamation. The project represented a turning point in the area's history and development.

The sculpture displays regional symbols such as a griffin biting a snake, representing the city's triumph over past hardship. These figures tell a story of transformation that locals recognized as their own.

The monument stands in the middle of Piazza Dante, the main square, which engineer Angiolo Cianferoni redesigned before the statue was placed there in spring 1846. The white marble group sits on a tall pedestal bearing an inscription, so the figures read best from a short distance rather than close up. The square is open and level, allowing a walk around the base.

The grand duke holds a second, older naked child by the hand; this boy crushes a dying snake underfoot while a griffin, Grosseto's emblem, bites the same snake. The snake stands for malaria, the griffin for the city that helped defeat it.