The Divine Comedy Illustrated by Sandro Botticelli

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Ended:July 14th 2021, 10:00am EDT

Winner: Vincenzod

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The Prize

Stunning and rare large leather-bound volume of The Divine Comedy with illustrations by Sandro Botticelli.

Lorenzo di Pier Francesco de' Medici, cousin of Lorenzo the Magnificent and also an illuminated merchant, commissioned Sandro Botticelli to illustrate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy at the end of the 1400s. The Florentine artist, fascinated by the mysterious beauty of Dante's poetry, devoted several years of his life to this monumental work. The drawings are engravings on parchment that have then been retraced in ink and partly colored, and bear testament to Botticelli's colossal work that made the canti of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise his own. One of the greatest Italian Renaissance artist employed his genius to illustrate this masterpiece of Christian humanism. Written between 1307 and 1321, the Comedy represents humanity in search of happiness on earth and salvation in the afterlife.

This volume was printed almost forty years ago at the Cassino printing factories. The volume is in reasonable condition for its age although it displays some scratches on the cover, a typical yellowing of the pages and a slightly stale smell, aspects that in no way detract from the value of the object as a collector's item.

Volume size: 32 x 42 cm

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The Cause

History Life Onlus was born out of a group of young volunteers’ passion for history and culture.

Our belief is that knowledge is the heritage of us all and that every one of us should know his/her own past in order to become a better version of himself/herself.

At the center of our activities are the protection, promotion and enhancement of culture and art in all of their forms and expressions. To this end, one of our main goals for 2017 is to create a fund for scholarships for deserving but economically disadvantaged students.

We believe that knowledge is a right of everyone: every citizen of the world should have the possibility to access it, independently from his/her economic situation, because only instruction makes men truly free.

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In condition as donated.

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