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title: DIVINE COMEDY - PLUTO

subject date: 2007-02-19

caption: DIVINE COMEDY (1321) Inferno, Canto VII. ''Then he turned to that swollen lip,/ And said: Be silent, cursed wolf;/ Consume within yourself with your rage'' (I, VII, 7-9). Virgil (15 October 70 BC – 21 September 19 BC) passing with Dante silences Plutus, guardian of the fourth circle, who rails against them. In the illustration, on the left the Supreme Poet Dante Alighieri (14 May/13 June 1265 – night between 13 and 14 September 1321) at his desk and on the right the scene described, all enclosed in an allegorical frame representing Paradise, Purgatory and Hell. Chromolithograph from a series of postcards by Egisto Sborgi Editore (detail in FSNgilardi_78802.jpg), Florence, circa 1918.

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country: Italia

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continent: Europa

image century : XX

image epoch: Anni Dieci

licence: RF

subject century: XIV

subject epoch: Medioevo

technique: Cromolitografia

id: 15734

file name: FSNgilardi_42985.jpg

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