EditorialInferno, Canto XXXII. Miniature shows Dante and Virgil on Cocytus, the Lake of Ice, beside the Traitors to Kindred. Standing amongst the Traitors to Cause and Country, Dante raises Bocca degli Abati, a Ghibelline who betrayed the Guelphs, by the hair, ...
EditorialPurgatorio: Dante talks to Jacopo del Cassero, Podesta or leader of the Commune of Bologna and Buonconte da Montefeltro, the Ghibelline leader. Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia ( The Divine Comedy ), with a commentary in Latin. 1st half of the 14th cen...
EditorialInferno, Canto XXXII. Miniature shows Dante and Virgil on Cocytus, the Lake of Ice, beside the Traitors to Kindred. Standing amongst the Traitors to Cause and Country, Dante raises Bocca degli Abati, a Ghibelline who betrayed the Guelphs, by the hair, ...
EditorialPurgatorio: Dante talks to Jacopo del Cassero, Podesta or leader of the Commune of Bologna and Buonconte da Montefeltro, the Ghibelline leader. Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia ( The Divine Comedy ), with a commentary in Latin. 1st half of the 14th cen...
EditorialFarinata degli Uberti, early 13th, head of the Ghibelline party in Florence. Murals from a hall in the Villa Carducci in Legnaia, Italy; painted around 1450. Mural, transferred to canvas,250 x 154 cm Inv. San Marco e Cenacoli 172.