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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 54

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INFERNO 42 ENGRAVING OF 148 1. The composition of the plate differs con- siderably from that of the drawing. The group of Dante and the three Florentines is brought forward, and to the left are two of the usurers. … XVII Dante and Virgil on the edge of the precipice that descends to the eighth circle. The monster Geryon reclines on the dam. (Cf. the close of the last canto.) He has the face of a just man, and the body of a serpent. His back, breast, and sides are gaily patterned. Colours variegated more Nor…

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

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