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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 41

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INFERNO 29 introduced in the following canto of the poem. Above, in a glory, is a female figure, to which Virgil points, while Dante gazes upward. The figure doubtless represents Beatrice, and is an addition of the artist's, for Beatrice is only mentioned in the poem, and does not appear. Ill … ENGRAVING OF 1 48 1. Dante and Virgil at the Gate of Hell. The first words of the three opening lines of the inscription: "Per me . . ." are legible above the entrance.

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

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