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Drawings by Sandro Botticelli for Dante's Divina commedia : reduced facsimiles after the originals in the Royal Museum, Berlin, and in the Vatican Library (1896)

Botticelli, Sandro, 1444 or 5-1510, Lippmann, Friedrich, 1839-1903, Baldini, Baccio · London : Lawrence and Bullen · leaf 40

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28 INFERNO I Dante has lost his way in a gloomy forest. Emerging from the thicket, he finds himself at the foot of a hill, the summit of which is touched by the rays of the rising sun. He attempts to ascend, but is driven back, first by a spotted panther, then by a lion and a she-wolf. He turns to… … ENGRAVING OF 1481* The composition of the plate agrees with that of the drawing in arrangement, and in many of the details; the positions of Dante and Virgil are almost identical in the two, saving that Dante's figure appears five times in the drawing, and only three times in the print. II…

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 · Botticelli, Sandro, 1444 or 5-1510 · Genealogy

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