Purgatorio di Dante
- Title:
- Purgatorio di Dante
- Alternate Title:
- Purgatorio di Dante
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Zuliani, Giovani Antonio
- Date:
- 1811
- Posted Date:
- 2024-04-25
- ID Number:
- 2519.02
- File Name:
- PJM_2519_02.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1800 - 1869
- Subject:
- Allegorical
Heaven and Hell
Religion - Measurement:
- 17 x 12 (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- The tantalizing details in Dante's Divine Comedy led a number of medieval scholars and artists to seek geographic and cosmographic knowledge from the work. "During the fifteenth century, the Florentine architect and mathematician Antonio Manetti decided that one could gather the information presented in [The Inferno] and extrapolate from it to map out precisely the size, shape and location of Dante's Hell." Padron 2007, 261. The collection includes a number of maps illustrating Dante's cosmography, published in a variety of formats over more than 350 years. (Search > "Dante"). For a comprehensive summary, see ID #1071.01, "Figura Universale Della Divina Commedia [Overview of the Divine Comedy]" (1872).
Manetti's original maps of Hell were first published c.1506 in woodblock form (ID ##1004.01-.07). As copper-plate engraving supplanted woodcuts in illustrated editions of The Divine Comedy like this, artists expanded their mapping beyond the cartography of Hell. An example is an 1811 edition in the collection with maps of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise by Giovani Antonio Zuliani. The medium of engraving allowed the creation of maps with more detail, such as Zuliani's inclusion of small figures of Dante and Virgil (labelled "D" and "V") as they journey through Hell (ID #2519.01) and Purgatory ((ID #2519.02), and of Dante and Beatrice ("D" and "B") as she guides him to Paradise (ID #2519.03). The same is shown in Bettoni's 1825 overview of Paradise (ID #1041.01).
Cornell University Library is pleased to present this digital collection of Persuasive Maps, the originals of which have been collected and described by the private collector PJ Mode. The descriptive information in the “Collector’s Notes” has been supplied by Mr. Mode and does not necessarily reflect the views of Cornell University. - Source:
- Alighieri, Dante. 1811. La Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri. Format sopra quella di Comino del 1727. [The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. Format following that of Comino of 1727.] Venice: Vitarelli.
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- For important information about copyright and use, see http://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/copyright.