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

Inferno, Canto XVIII (detail)

1480s
Manuscript (Ms. Hamilton 201)
Staatliche Museen, Berlin

In this detail of the drawing (silverpoint on parchment, completed in pen and ink, coloured with tempera) 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.