BOTTICELLI, Sandro
(b. 1445, Firenze, d. 1510, Firenze)

Inferno, Canto XVIII (detail)

1480s
Silverpoint on parchment, completed in pen and ink, coloured with tempera
Staatliche Museen, Berlin

We see Dante with Virgil, his guide, in the eighth circle, which consists of ten deep chasms in which those guilty of fraud are punished.