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
Alighieri, Dante. Divina commedia. Venezia, Francesco Marcolini per Alessandro Vellutello, 1544 http://roma.bloomsburyauctions.com/detail/ROMA-31/505.0
Dante and Beatrice entering the sphere of the fixed stars (Venice: Francesco Marcolini, 1544) http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/rarebooks/dante.html
Dante and Beatrice with the wise and the learned in the sphere of the sun. Paradiso X. La comedia di Dante Aligieri con la nova espositione di Alessandro Vellutello Venice: Francesco Marcolini, 1544. SSS.56.5 http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/rarebooks/vellutello.html The souls ascend to the Empyrean. Dante looks down to see how far he has travelled. Paradiso XXVII
Rudolf Bacher Dante here Ver Sacrum ,1902
4. Alighieri, Dante. La comedia di Dante Aligieri con la nova espositione di Alessandro Vellutello Venezia, Francesco Marcolini, 1544. http://roma.bloomsburyauctions.com Beatrice and Dante conversing with Saint Peter and Saint James, Paradiso XXV (Venice: Francesco Marcolini, 1544). CUL SSS.56.5 Frontispiece to Paradiso (Venice: Francesco Marcolini, 1544). CUL SSS.56.5 http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/exhibitions/Dante/sun.html
Rudolf Bacher Dante here Ver Sacrum ,1902
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