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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri by Amos Nattini
Title
"The Divine Comedy", Inferno: Dante and Virgil in Limbo
Caption
Amos Nattini (1892-1985), "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
Inferno, Canto IV, 1st Circle, Limbo: Virtuous Spirits, not baptized, with no other pain than the eternally unsatisfied desire to see God. Dante and Virgil with the shadow of the four great poets: Homere, Horace, Ovid and Lucan.
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
DGL13A01_235
License type
Rights managed
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