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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 57

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lames play upon the souls of their feet. One among them , who writhes as if in greater agony than his companions, attracts Dante's notice. Virgil carries the poet down the incline into the chasm, where he interrogates the tortured sinner, Pope Nicholas V. Virgil then catches Dante in his arms, and… … ENGRAVING OF 148 1. The print adheres, on the whole, pretty closely to the drawing, omitting, however, some of the figures. The composition is not reversed. The two groups, Dante and Virgil de- scending to the simoniacs, and Virgil carrying Dante back, are to the right of the bridge in the print,…

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

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