Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Divina Commedia
Italy, Florence, 1345-1355
MS M.676 fol. 71v

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Divina Commedia, Purgatorio: Scene, Atonement of Avaricious -- Dante, wearing hat, kneels beside nude soul of Pope Adrian V, wearing papal tiara, laying face down on ground. Beside Dante stands Virgil, gesturing to other nude souls of the avaricious, all laying prostrate on the ground.