<small><b>[See source]</b></small> Beatrice, the Italian poet Dante's beloved, serves as his guide through Paradise in his epic poem, The Divine Comedy (1321). The verses from the poem that Scheffer illustrates are written on the frame and translate as follows:
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1851<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1851-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://collections.mfa.org/objects/31897">Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, online database</a><br> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://zoom.mfa.org/fif=sc3/sc37209.fpx&amp;obj=iip,1.0&amp;wid=960&amp;cvt=jpeg">image</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://zoom.mfa.org/fif=sc3/sc37209.fpx&amp;obj=iip,1.0&amp;wid=1500&amp;cvt=jpeg">1500 x 2706</a>