DIVINE COMEDY

In the mid 1950s, the Italian Minister of Culture commissioned Salvador Dalí to illustrate Dante’s Divine Comedy, to be published in 1965 in honor of the 700th anniversary of Dante’s birth in Florence in 1265.

Dalí’s newly illustrated version of the European classic would be released in a year of celebratory fairs, symposia and readings during the great author’s septecentennial. A bibliophile’s dream, Dalí’s Divine Comedy, was published in six, slip-cased volumes – two each for Hell, Purgatory and Heaven – with a total of 100 Dalí wood engravings corresponding to the 100 stanzas or cantos in the epic poem.

Dalí’s images were deftly slipped into folded sheets on which the poetry in Italian, French or German was beautifully typeset, so that one could delectate Dalí’s visions alongside Dante’s vivid verse.

White Space has the complete set (french version) of the Divine Comedy which includes the Canto.

33 Inferno/Hell

33 Paradise/Heaven

33 Purgatory

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