Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

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

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Divina Commedia, Purgatorio: Scene, Examples of Pride -- Three examples of pride, including Sennacherib, kneeling before altar with joined hands raised, stabbed in back by his two sons; Judith, standing atop tower, showing severed head of Holofernes to group of men, turning away; and city of Troy, collapsing into ruins. At right, Virgil stands behind Dante, wearing hat, kneeling with joined hands raised before nimbed angels who wipes his forehead with his wings.