Art, Symbol & Imagination
Dante Recognises Brunetto Latini
Dante bends from the raised path toward a bare-headed figure below him while Virgil stands farther along the ledge, with bright strokes of fire crossing the dark space. The encounter begins with recognition despite Brunetto’s altered, scorched appearance. Doré gives the exchange a downward movement through Dante’s inclined head and reaching gesture, while the guide’s more distant position leaves room for a personal conversation. The printed caption names Brunetto. The poem’s account combines affection for a former teacher with a place in its punitive geography; the Gallery records that tension without adopting the judgement as a statement about the historical man’s worth or ultimate fate.
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Gustave Doré (design). "Dante Recognises Brunetto Latini" [editorial title]. In Dante's Inferno, Dante Alighieri. New Edition, undated supplied scan, undated edition, Thompson & Thomas. Source scan leaf 121. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/inferno-dore-114
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Full original plate and caption visually inspected. Editorial title; original scan tone and intrinsic damage retained. Sideways plates rotated in the Gallery derivative only.
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Gustave Doré (design). Dante Recognises Brunetto Latini. Dante's Inferno. Scan leaf 121. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/inferno-dore-114