Curious Souls

Two Souls from the Crowd Want to Know if Dante is Alive – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)
Virgil Admonishes Dante

Canto 5 – Virgil’s Admonishment – Salvador Dali (mid 20th cent.)
Dante’s Shadow

Negligent souls note Dante’s Shadow – Egerton 943 Manuscript (mid 14th cent.)

The Souls Marvel at Dante’s Shadow – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)
Late Repentant Souls / Violent Deaths

Dante Listens to Those Who Repented at the Point of Death – Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Strozzi 152 (ca. 1330)

Negligent Souls Who Repented at the Point of Death – Biblioteca e Complesso Monumentale Dei Girolamini, Napoli (1355)

Dante and Virgil Meet Souls Who Repented too Late – Egerton 943 Manuscript (mid 14th cent.)

Negligent Souls – Bodleian Library MS. Holkham misc. 48 (ca. 1365)

Last-Minute Repentants – Biblioteca Marciana – Venice (ca. 1385)

Ante-Purgatory, Souls of Late Repentents Who Met a Violent End – Sandro Botticelli (late 15th cent.)

Souls Who Died a Violent Death – Illuminated Letter – Firenze, Biblioteca Riccardiana (early 15th cent.)

Climbing Among the Late Penitents (colored drawing) – Alessandro Vellutello (1544)

Dante and Virgil Encounter Souls Who Died by Violence – Filippo Rizzi (ca. 1757)

Encounter with the Late Repentant Souls – Luigi Ademollo (1817)

Souls of Those Who Repented at the Moment of Death – William Blake (1824)

The Late Repentant Singing the Miserere – Gustave Dore (1868)

The Late Repentant Singing the Miserere (colorized)- Gustave Dore (1868)
Jacopo del Cassero and Buonconte da Montefeltro

Dante talks with Jacopo and Buonconte – Niccolo Tommaseo (1908)

Azzo VIII d’Este, Jacopo’s Assassin – Luigi Asioli (1854)

Dante speaks with Jacopo and Buonconte – Amos Nattini (ca. 1915-1939)

An Angel and Demon Fight over Buonconte – Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Ital. 108 (ca. 1375)

The Deliverance of Buonconte – John Flaxman (1793)

An Angel Rescues the Soul of Buonconte from the Devil – Bonaventura Genelli (1798-1868)

The Death of Buonconte – Gabriele Smargiassi (1798-1882)

An Angel Rescues Buonconte from a Devil – G.G. Macchiavelli (1806)

An Angel and Devil Fight over the Soul of Buonconte – Luigi Ademollo (1817)

An Angel Rescues the Soul of Buonconte – Bartolomeo Pinelli (1824)

Canto 5 – An Angel and Devil Fight over the Body of Buonconte – Gustave Dore (1868)

An Angel and Devil Fight over the Body of Buonconte (colorized) – Gustave Dore (1868)

Buonconte’s Soul Is Rescued by an Angel – Vittorio Alinari, ed., Florence 1902

Canto 6 – The Fight over Buonconte – Early 20th cent. Italian Postcard

An Angel Saves the Soul of Buonconte – Ezio Anichini (ca. 1921)

Battle of Campaldino – Medieval Fresco – Palazzo Communale – San Gimignano
Pia de Tolomei

Leaving the Lazy Souls, Pia – Federico Zuccari (1586)

Pia Makes Her Request – Federico Zuccari (1586)

Dante Speaks with La Pia – Luigi Ademollo (1817)

Pia de’Tolomei and Her Husband Nello della Pietra – Cesare Maffei (1835)

The Sadness of Pia de Tolomei – Eliseo-Sala (1846)

Pia Asks to Be Remembered by Dante – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)

La Pia dei Tolomei – Enrico Pollastrini (1850)

Nello at the Tomb of Pia de’ Tolomei – Enrico Pollastrini (1851)

Pia dei Tolomei – Carlo Arienti (1801–1873)

Pia de’ Tolomei Being Taken to Maremma – Pompeo Molmenti (1853)

Pia de’Tolomei and Nello della Pietra – Ashmolean Museum – Pio Fedi (1816-1892)

Nello della Pietra and Pia de’Tolomei – Alfonso Balzico (1868)

Dante Speaks with Pia de Tolomei – Gustave Dore (1868)

Dante Speaks with Pia de Tolomei (colorized) – Gustave Dore (1868)

Pia de’Tolomei – Raffaele Giannetti (1870)

Pia de’ Tolomei – Natale Faorzi (1881-1939)

Pia Tolomei – Early 20th cent. Italian Postcard

Pia Speaks with Dante – Tancredi Scarpelli (1932)
Jacopo, Buonconte, and Pia

Encounter with Jacopo, Buonconte, and Pia – Biblioteca e Complesso Monumentale Dei Girolamini, Napoli (1355)

More negligent souls – Jacopo, Buonconte, and Pia – Bodleian Library MS. Holkham misc. 48 (ca. 1365)

Jacopo, Buonconte, Pia – Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Ital. 108 (1375)

Dante talks with Jacopo, Buonconte, and Pia – Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, IX, 276 (ca. 1385)

Messengers from the Crowd of Souls, Speaking with Buonconte, Pia, and Others – Bonino de Boninis (1467)

Meeting Jacopo, Buonconte, and Pia – Master of the Pliny of Pico della Mirandola (1491)
Maremma

Woodland and Swamp Area in the Maremma

Marshland in the Maremma