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 48
e flaming graves of the drawing are omitted in the print. X The poets proceed along a narrow pathway between the ramparts and the fiery graves. The lids of the tombs are raised. (Virgil dis- courses of the souls within.) Dante hears a voice calling to him, that of the Ghibelline Farinato degli… … The poets continue their path to the left. To avoid the horrible exhalations from the abyss in the centre of the plain (Inf. XI, 4-12), they take refuge for a time under the lid of a great sepulchre , on which is inscribed: "I guard Pope Anastasius". (Anastasius, Pope A. D. 496, is placed by Dante…
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