Visões de Dante: o Inferno segundo Botticelli = Visions of Dante : the Inferno according to Botticelli

Abstract

"In the year of the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri's death, the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum welcomes to its galleries two exceptional drawings by Sandro Botticelli alluding to the Inferno from the Divine Comedy, on loan from the Vatican Apostolic Library, in addition to other works from this same institution, from the Gulbenkian Museum and from other collections. At the centre of this unique bilingual publication (in English and Portuguese) we find the two drawings by Sandro Botticelli reproduced in a four-fold panel alongside the texts of the cantos they illustrate and their respective translations. From this central motif, the remainder of the publication is divided between texts and the catalogue of exhibited works. The publication is further enriched by quotations from the Inferno of the Divine Comedy in both English and Portuguese."--