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 51
39 are, in fact, the transformed shades of suicides. Incited by Virgil, Dante breaks off a branch, whereupon blood flows down the trunk, and the tree breaks forth into a complaint of the suffering inflicted on it by the poet. The speaker is Piero delle Vigne, Chancellor to the Emperor Frederick… … Padua. Jacopo takes refuge in one of the bushes, but is torn to pieces by the dogs together with the bush. The lacerated trunk- — a Floren- tine— intreats Dante to gather his scattered branches, and lay them at his roots. ENGRAVING OF 14S1. The print is a condensed version of the chief motives of…
