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title: DIVINE COMEDY - FARINATA DEGLI UBERTI

subject date: 2010-05-15

caption: DIVINE COMEDY (1321) Inferno, Canto X. ''But I was alone there, where everyone suffered/ To take away Florence,/ He who defended her with open face'' (I, X, 91-93). The damned soul of the Ghibelline leader Farinata degli Uberti (c. 1212 – 11 November 1264) speaks to the living soul of Dante leaning out of the tomb, in the damned city of Dite. 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_78804.jpg), Florence, circa 1918.

category: HIS

copyright: © Fototeca Gilardi

copyright status: Copyrighted Work

country: Italia

credit: Fototeca Gilardi

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object name: 42986

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multiplying price: 1.00

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continent: Europa

image century : XX

image epoch: Anni Dieci

licence: RF

subject century: XIV

subject epoch: Medioevo

technique: Cromolitografia

id: 27829

file name: FSNgilardi_42986.jpg

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