Title

"The Divine Comedy", Inferno: Counsellors of Fraud are wrapped in flames (detail)

Caption

Amos Nattini (1892-1985), "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
Inferno, Canto XXVI, Circle 8: Fraud. Bolgia 8: Counsellors of Fraud are wrapped in flames because they used their position to advise others to engage in fraud (detail).
Private collection.

Info+

In 1921, for Dante Aligheri's 600th anniversary of death, the Istituto Nazionale Dantesco chose Amos Nattini to illustrate The Divine Comedy. The illustrations have been published in 1923.

Date

1923

Credit line

Alfredo Dagli Orti/Photo12

Reference

DGL13A00_497

License type

Rights managed

Available size

145,5Mb (8,4Mb) / 26,7in x 21,2in / 8000 x 6356 (300dpi)

Keywords

Hell Painting Lithograph Illustration Divine Comedy Italy Poetry Middle Ages Literature 1923 Man Woman Burnt Flame Fire Torture Human torch Tortured Burning