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Diogenes of Babylon posted an update 5 years, 7 months ago
“Dante and Beatrice before the Light”, from a beautiful 15th-century illustrated version of Divine Comedy by the great Italian poet Dante Alighieri, who died on this day in 1321.
The Giza Forum (Legacy)
Closed Archive of The Old Forum
More of this Italian manuscript’s Hermetic & gorgeous illuminations for the poem here:
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/14th-century-illuminations-for-dante-s-divine-comedy
wow interesting…looks like influences of William Blake
The 15th-century incunabulum of the Divine Comedy predates William Blake 28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827.