Month: June 2021

Journey through the Dante Urbinate: Purgatory, Canto I
10 June 2021   |    Dante Urbinate

We left our two poets as they were exiting the Inferno, so now their journey continues toward the discovery of Purgatory. A large rectangular vignette with a gold leaf frame occupies the center of this…

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Journey through the Dante Urbinate: the fame
4 June 2021   |    Dante Urbinate

You may not know that among the thousands of volumes in the Vatican Library, the Dante Urbinate has been chosen to be shown to distinguished visitors, because of its extraordinary beauty. The critical history of…

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Journey through the Dante Urbinate: Canto XXXIII, the stars
1 June 2021   |    Dante Urbinate

“E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle.”  Our journey with Dante and Virgil through the Inferno has ended. We see the two poets as they emerge from the great rocky cave where Lucifer appears with…

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