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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 43

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INFERNO 3* IV ENGRAVING OF 1 48 1. This illustration, condensed and pregnant to a fault, touches very slightly on the main incidents of the canto, so far as its earlier verses are concerned. … Roused from his swoon by a clap of thunder, Dante finds himself on the edge of a precipice, descending which with Virgil, he enters the first circle of Hell. They leave behind them a great multitude , the souls of those who lived blamelessly, but died unbaptized, and advance towards a flame, by the…

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

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