MINIATURIST, Italian
(active 1380-1400 in Venice)

Dante: Divina Commedia

1380-1400
Manuscript (Cod. It. IX. 276)
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice

This codex is very large in format and extensively decorated with large initials at the beginning of each canto and with 170 miniatures, some of them full-page, distributed among the text, which is laid out in two columns. One of the illuminators has been identified as Jacopo da Verona (1355-1442).

The miniature on folio 58v illustrates Canto VIII of Paradise. It shows Beatrice and Dante, who is in conversation with Charles Martel.