Dante Historiato by Federigo Zuccaro - Salerno Publisher

The most impressive figurative representation of the "Divine Comedy" ever created. The work of Federico Zuccari (1540-1609), it was conceived and executed between 1586 and 1588, when the great artist from the Marche region was at the Escorial in Spain, summoned by Philip II, and offers a complete illustration of Dante's poem: 89 large plates drawn in black and red pencil, the Inferno and Paradise (with the Earthly Paradise), or in pen and watercolor, the Purgatory, then glued onto larger white sheets, which bear on the back the transcription, autographed by Zuccari, of the illustrated passages of the text. The plates - of medium format 42/44 x 58/60 cm., sometimes composite and folded, up to a maximum of 50 x 149 cm. and 77 x 99 cm. -, now preserved in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, were collected in 1865, on the occasion of the sixth centenary of Dante's birth, in a sumptuous album which has now been reproduced in facsimile as part of the "National Edition of Dante's Commentaries", 2. "The Illustrated Commentaries", accompanied by a large volume of Commentary, edited by Prof. Andrea Mazzucchi.

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