Souls Crowd Around Dante
Meeting the Souls Who Died by Violence – Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Strozzi 152 (ca. 1330)
Dante is Crowded by Souls Seeking His Aid – Egerton 943 Manuscript (mid 14th cent.)
Messengers – Souls Gather around Dante and Virgil – Morgan Library Florentine MS 1345 (ca. 1350)
Shy Souls Flock to Dante – Morgan Library Florentine MS 1345 (ca. 1350)
Begging Souls Gather around Dante, Sordello – Morgan Library Florentine MS 1345 (ca. 1350)
Souls Crowd around Dante Asking for Prayers – Biblioteque de l’Arsenal, Paris (late 14th cent.)
Souls Crowd around Dante, Appearance of Sordello – Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Ital. 108 (late 14th cent.)
The Dead Crowding around Dante – Biblioteque de l’Arsenal, Paris (late 14th cent.)
Souls Beg Dante for Prayers – Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, IX, 276 (ca. 1385)
Virgil spurs Dante who Lingers Listening to the Souls of the Negligent – Venice, Biblioteca Marciana (ca. 1385)
Dante Surrounded by Begging Souls, Encounter with Sordello – Bonino de Boninis (1467)
Ante-Purgatory Souls of Late Penitents Who Met a Violent End, Meeting with Sordello – Sandro Botticelli (late 15th cent.)
Souls Crowd around Dante Asking for Prayers – Biblioteca Vaticana – Codice Urbinate Latino 365 (1481)
Souls of the Late Repentant, Meeting Sordello – Master of the Pliny of Pico della Mirandola (1491)
Dante Surrounded by Begging Souls (colored drawing) – Alessandro Vellutello (1544)
Souls Crowd around Dante – Bernhard Schuler (fl. 1890-99)
Souls Begging for Prayers – Amos Nattini (1916-1939)
Canto 6: The Neglectful Meets Violent Death – Salvador Dali (mid 20th cent.)
Virgil Spurs Dante Who Lingers Listening to the Souls of the Negligent – Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Strozzi 152 (ca. 1330)
Dante at the Court of Guido Novello Andrea-Pierini (1798–1858)
The Question of Prayers
The Question of Prayers – Federico Zuccari (1586)
The Encounter with Sordello
Sordello, the Question of Prayers – Federico Zuccari (1586)
Virgil Points to the Soul of Sordello – Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Strozzi 152 (ca. 1330)
Sordello – Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Strozzi 152 (ca. 1330)
Sordello Hugs Virgil – Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Strozzi 152 (ca. 1330)
Encounter with Sordello – Egerton 943 Manuscript (mid 14th cent.)
Dante and Virgil Encounter Sordello – Bodleian Library MS. Holkham misc. 48 (mid 14th cent.)
Sordello’s Homage – Bodleian Library MS. Holkham misc. 48 (mid 14th cent.)
Encounter with Sordello – Biblioteca e Complesso Monumentale Dei Girolamini, Napoli (1355)
The Encounter with Sordello – Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, IX, 276 (ca. 1385)
Meeting Sordello – Biblioteca Marciana (ca. 1385)
Cantos 6-8: Dante and Virgil Talking with Souls, Sordello’s Embrace of Virgil, the Angels Chasing away the Serpent – Priamo della Quercia (ca 1450)
Souls Crowd around Dante, the Encounter with Sordello (colored drawing) – Alessandro Vellutello (1544)
The Encounter with Sordello – Biblioteca Vaticana – Codice Urbinate Latino 365 (1481)
The Encounter with Sordello – Federico Zuccari (1586)
The Encounter with Sordello – Artist unknown – Antonio Zata, ed., Venice (1757)
Sordello Draws a Line – Filippo Rizzi (1757)
Dante and Virigl Meet Sordello – Luigi Sabatelli (ca. 1788)
The Meeting with Sordello – John Flaxman (1793)
Virgil and Sordello Embrace – Artist Unknown (early 19th cent.)
Sordello Embraces Virgil – Luigi Ademollo (1817)
The Appearance of Sordello – Bartolomeo Pinelli (1824)
Dante and Virgil Encounter Sordello – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)
Dante and Virgil Meet the Poet Sordello – Antonio Varni (1841-1909)
Dante and Virgil Meet Sordello – Detail of the Monument to Dante in Trento Italy – Cesare Zocchi (1896)
Dante and Virgil Encounter Sordello – Vittorio Alinari, ed., Florence 1920
The Meeting with Sordello – Vittorio Alinari, ed. Florence 1902
Dante and Virgil Encounter Sordello – Niccolo Tommaseo (1908)
Sordello and Virgil – Early 20th cent. Italian Postcard
Sordello – Francis-Maurice Roganeau (1912)
Miscellaneous Characters
Ghino di Tacco, Notorious Murderer and Highwayman (artist unknown)
Pierre de La Brosse Hanged – Manuscript of Chroniques de France (1380)
Maria of Brabant (center) – Heinrich Stüber (1600)
Emperor Justinian I – 4th cent. Mosaic in the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna
Albert I of Hapsburg – 18th cent. (artist unknown)