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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 45

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481. Dante and Virgil in the third circle. Heavy showers of rain, snow, and hail fall on the souls of the gluttonous, who do penance here; they lie naked on the ground, the three -headed dog, Cerberus, tearing their flesh, and rending them limb from limb. Virgil quiets the monster by throwing… … ENGRAVING OF 1 48 1. The two poets encounter Pluto. Virgil speaks to him of the Archangel Michael, upon which the fiendish monster falls to the ground, "As sails, full spread and bellying with the wind Drop suddenly collapsed, if the mast split." (V. 13-14.) Dante and Virgil enter the fourth…

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

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