Pellegrini nell’Aldilà: Dante e Virgilio in un disegno di Bartolomeo Passerotti al Louvre

Abstract

The drawing inv. 8471 by Bartolomeo Passerotti in the Louvre is studied from iconographic point of view: we argue to identify, in the two figures, the great poets Dante and Virgil traveling through Hell. Furthermore, for the drawing, inspired by the Divine Comedy, we propose a chronology around 1575, based on stylistic comparison, and we hypothesize as probable its original Florentine destination.