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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 49

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INFERNO 37 XI ENGRAVING OF 148 1. Descending to the seventh circle, Dante and Virgil come to a rocky bank of ruins. They take refuge behind the lid of a huge tomb, to escape the noisome exhalations from below. On the tomb is inscribed "I guard Pope Anastasius11. (Cf. the illustration to … the tenth canto). (Here they gradually become accustomed to the foul air, and after a while are able to endure it. Virgil discourses to Dante of the various circles and their inhabitants.) The flaming graves of the arch -heretics are still to be seen in the upper part of the print. (Cf. Inf. X.)…

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

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