Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Divina Commedia
Italy, Florence, 1345-1355
MS M.676 fol. 62r

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Divina Commedia, Purgatorio: Scene, Examples of Pride -- Five examples of pride, including Niobe, rending her garment as she stands amid the nude bodies of her sons and daughters; Saul, falling upon his sword; Arachne, as spider on web; Rehoboam, seated in cart pulled by two oxen; and Eriphyle, stabbed in the breast by her son Alcmaeon.