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
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…
