Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d ever want to take a road if I knew where it led.

Louis Kahan
The Triumph of Love

Petrarch’s Triumphs (c. 1340-74), a series of vision poems after the manner of Dante’s Comedy, was extremely popular in the late fifteenth century. This illustration portrays the opening of The Triumph of Love:

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