Sordello’s Embrace and Homage
Sordello Pays Homage to Virgil – Egerton 943 Manuscript (1335)
Sordello Embraces Virgil – Biblioteca e Complesso Monumentale Dei Girolamini, Napoli (1355)
Sordello Kneels in Homage – Biblioteca e Complesso Monumentale Dei Girolamini, Napoli (1355)
Sordello Embraces Virgil – Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, IX, 276 (ca. 1385)
Sordello Embraces Virgil – Biblioteca Vaticana – Codice Urbinate Latino 365 (1481)
Sordello’s Homage to Virgil – Biblioteca Vaticana – Codice Urbinate Latino 365 (1481)
Sordello’s Homage – G.G. Macchiavelli (1806)
Sordello Embraces Virgil – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)
Sordello’s homage – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)
Sordello Kneels before Virgil – Gustave Dore (1868)
Sordello Kneels before Virgil (colorized) – Gustave Dore (1868)
Sordello Embraces Virgil – Niccolo Tommaseo (1908)
Homage of Sordello – Domenico Mastroianni – (early-mid-20th cent.)
Dante Speaks of Limbo
Limbo – John Flaxman (1793)
Virgil Explains That He Resides in Limbo with (among others) Innocent Children Snatched by Death – Bartolomeo Pinelli (1824)
Sordello Offers to Guide Dante and Virgil
Sordello Offers to Lead Dante and Virgil – Bodleian Library MS. Holkham misc. 48 (ca. 1365)
Sordello Offers to Guide Them to the Valley of the Princes – Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Ital. 108 (1375)
Sordello Draws a Line
Sordello Draws the Line and Explains That They Cannot Move upward at Night – Artist unknown – Antonio Zata, ed., Venice (1757)
Sordello Draws a Line and Says They Cannot Move upward at Night – Francesco Scaramuzza (ca. 1850)
Canto 7: The Law of Climbing – Salvador Dali (mid 20th cent.)
Sordello Shows Dante and Virgil the Valley of the Negligent Princes
Sordello Shows Them the Negligent Princes – Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Strozzi 152 (ca. 1330)
Sordello Shows Dante and Virgil the Negligent Rulers – Egerton 943 Manuscript (ca. 1335)
Night Prayer (Salve Regina) – Bodleian Library MS. Holkham misc. 48 (ca. 1350-1376)
Sordello Shows Dante and Virgil the Valley of the Princes – Bodleian Library MS. Holkham misc. 48 (ca. 1350-1376)
Sordello Shows Them the Valley of the Princes – Biblioteca e Complesso Monumentale Dei Girolamini, Napoli (1355)
Sordello Shows Valley of Kings – Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Ital. 108 (1375)
Sordello Shows Them the Valley of the Princes – Biblioteque de l’Arsenal, Paris (late 14th cent.)
Sordello Brings Them to the Valley of the Princes – Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, IX, 276 (ca. 1385)
Sordello Points to the Valley of the Negligent Princes – Biblioteca Marciana (ca. 1385)
Sordello Points out the Valley of the Princes – Bonino de Boninis (1467)
Sordello Points out the Valley of the Negligent Rulers – Biblioteca Vaticana – Codice Urbinate Latino 365 (1481)
Ante-Purgatory: Valley of Negligent Rulers – Sandro Botticelli (late 15th cent.)
Sordello Takes Dante and Virgil to the Valley of the Negligent Rulers – Master of the Pliny of Pico della Mirandola (1491)
Negligent Princes – Federico Zuccari (1586)
Sordello Shows Dante and Virgil the Negligent Rulers – Luigi Ademollo (1817)
The Negligent Rulers Singing the Salve Regina – Gustave Dore (1868)
The Negligent Rulers Singing the Salve Regina (colorized) – Gustave Dore (1868)
The Valley of the Negligent Rulers – Amos Nattini (ca. 1915-1939)
Kings in the Valley of the Negligent Rulers
Rudolf of Hapsburg
Ottokar II of Bohemia
Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia
Philip III of France
Henry the Fat of Navarre
Philip IV of France
Pedro III of Aragon
Charles I of Anjou – Arnolfo di Cambio (1277)
Alfonso III of Aragon
James II of Aragon
Frederick II of Sicily
Henry III of England
William VII Longsword Marquis of Montferrat