This book is an inquiry into Dante and the visual arts, beginning from early portraits of Dante and the famous ekphrasis at the beginning of the Purgatorio, and extending to the sources for Dante’s “visibile parlare,” his relationship to Giotto, Dante illustrations in manuscript and printed editions, and the great interpretations of Dante by Donatello, Michelangelo, Blake, Delacroix, and Rodin.
