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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 44

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INFERNO 32 addresses a warning to Dante, and is informed by Virgil of his special mission. As they advance, they hear the roaring of a tempest, and see the souls of carnal sinners, driven onward by a furious wind. Dante … notices a couple who float through the air pressing closely one against the other. (Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta. He addresses them. Francesca relates her story.) VI

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

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