{"id":3417,"date":"2008-08-14T01:43:44","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T00:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/08\/14\/maps-of-the-inferno\/"},"modified":"2015-02-22T02:31:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T01:31:00","slug":"maps-of-the-inferno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/08\/14\/maps-of-the-inferno\/","title":{"rendered":"Maps of the Inferno"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dante’s Inferno, Map of Whole Hell (1587?). <\/em><\/p>\n

Continuing the theme of yesterday’s post, Wikimedia Commons has a substantial section devoted to Dante’s Inferno<\/em> including some maps, the best being this one<\/a> and another<\/a>, both by Giovanni Stradano<\/a> aka Stradanus (1523\u20131605).<\/p>\n

And taking a broader view, there’s Michelangelo Cactani’s depiction of Dante’s entire cosmos showing the pit of the Inferno, Mount Purgatory and the spheres of Heaven. This was the version we used in Robert Meadley’s A Tea Dance at Savoy<\/em><\/a> (2003) and includes my addition of titles and a frame.<\/p>\n

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La Materia della Divina Commedia di Dante Aligherie (1855). <\/em><\/p>\n

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Dante’s Inferno, Map of Whole Hell (1587?). Continuing the theme of yesterday’s post, Wikimedia Commons has a substantial section devoted to Dante’s Inferno including some maps, the best being this one and another, both by Giovanni Stradano aka Stradanus (1523\u20131605). And taking a broader view, there’s Michelangelo Cactani’s depiction of Dante’s entire cosmos showing the … Continue reading “Maps of the Inferno”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,42,44,31],"tags":[7045,522,164],"class_list":["post-3417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-painting","category-religion","tag-dante-author","tag-michelangelo-artist","tag-tom-phillips"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-T7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}