Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Dante's Places a map (still a prototype) of the places named by Dante in the Commedia, created with GoogleMaps. An explanatory PDF is available for download at the same page; Gustave Dore – Paradiso Complete 18 hi-resolution picture album
Engraving by Baldini after Botticelli, from the 1481 book. The drawings in the manuscript were not the first to be created by Botticelli for the Divine Comedy.He also illustrated another Commedia, this time a printed edition with engravings as illustrations, that was published by Nicholo di Lorenzo della Magna in Florence in 1481, and is mentioned by Vasari.
Dante's Places: a map (still a prototype) of the places named by Dante in the Commedia, created with GoogleMaps. Explanatory PDF is available for download; See more Dante's Inferno images by selecting the "Heaven & Hell" subject at the Persuasive Cartography, The PJ Mode Collection, Cornell University Library
Dante gazes at Mount Purgatory in an allegorical portrait by Agnolo Bronzino, painted c. 1530. The Divine Comedy is composed of 14,233 lines that are divided into three cantiche (singular cantica) – Inferno (), Purgatorio (), and Paradiso () – each consisting of 33 cantos (Italian plural canti).
A complete listing and criticism of all English translations of at least one of the three cantiche (parts) was made by Cunningham in 1966. [12] The table below summarises Cunningham's data with additions between 1966 and the present, many of which are taken from the Dante Society of America's yearly North American bibliography [13] and Società Dantesca Italiana [] 's international ...
During the investigation, an officer allegedly found Guerra’s journal, which blabs about the vehicle heist in a tone fit for a ladies’ brunch.
Giovanni di Paolo illuminated Dante's Paradiso with 61 miniature tempera paintings in the 1440s. [44] Sandro Botticelli made the most famous set of illustrations during the Renaissance for a manuscript of the Divine Comedy commissioned by Lorenzo Pierfrancesco de' Medici; Botticelli also designed a series of illustrations for the 1481 edition ...
Scientists have identified the “mystery volcano” that erupted in 1831 and cooled Earth’s climate. They have linked it to an island volcano in the northwest Pacific.