Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri, the Florentine poet whose Divine Comedy shaped the Western imagination, is represented here by a single sheet from his vision of the afterlife. The collection's lone item, The Vision of Hell (Inferno), is rendered in wood engraving, the only technique present in this holding. Impressions up to 1866 reflect the continued circulation of his imagery in printed form, well after the poet's own lifetime.
1 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)
