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 50
are more or less deeply immersed in proportion to the extent of their guilt. The flood rises to the eyebrows of tyrants. Centaurs on the banks shoot arrows at all who emerge from the blood further than is consistent with their guilt. Three of the Centaurs, Nessus, Chiron, and Pholus, detach them-… … shores of the stream to a spot where the blood becomes so shallow that it only covers the feet. Here they cross the channel , and Nessus returns. (On the way, Nessus points out to them some famous sinners, expiating their crimes in the bloody tide.) ENGRAVING OF14S1. The print follows the drawing…
