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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 56

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ecognizes in him Venedico Caccianimico of Bologna. (They converse together.) Passing on the bridge that spans the second Bolgia, Dante beholds the penance of flatterers, immersed in filth from head to foot. He re- cognizes Alessio Interminci (Interminelli) of Lucca; Virgil points out to him Thai's,… … ENGRA VING OF 148 1 . This gives but a very inadequate idea of the general composition of the drawing. Geryon is relegated to the middle -distance in the upper part of the plate. So far as a comparison of print and drawing is permissible, in such details, for instance, as the position of the…

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