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 52
INFERNO 4o ground, others sit in a crouching posture, but the greater number run distractedly to and fro. One, who lies apparently indifferent to the falling … flames, Virgil explains to be Capaneus (V. 61). The red stream of Phlegethon rises in the thicket. (Cf. Inf. XIII.) XV Passing along the shores of Phlegethon, which is compassed by rocky dams, Dante and Virgil encounter a troop of the naked souls tormented in the sandy waste (cf. Inf. XVI, 35).…
