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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 53

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INFERNO 41 the stream flows to the left, and lies to the right of the wide plain, on which are scattered the figures of the damned. But whereas Dante, … Virgil, and Latini, are on the right bank of the river in the drawing, in the print they appear on the left. XVI Continuing their way along the banks of Phlegethon, Dante and Virgil encounter another band of Sodomites, doing penance in the sea of sand and shower of flames. The poets come to a place…

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

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