Rogue images in manuscripts of theDivine Comedy
Paul J. Papillo
Abstract In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, unlike today, many study editions of Divine Comedy were designed with hundreds illustrations. And distributed among within these pictures one finds events details that, surprisingly, do not originate Dante or poem's commentaries. some cases deviations are simple errors, easily identified little interest. But other discordances so readily dismissed; show signs willful intent raise questions as to underlying motivation purpose.
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