Immaginare (e rappresentare) il Limbo. A proposito di un’immagine presente nell’ Officiolum di Francesco da Barberino e Inferno IV

2016; Loescher; Volume: 193; Issue: 642 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1484/j.gsli.5.129554

ISSN

0017-0496

Autores

Lucia Battaglia Ricci,

Tópico(s)

Byzantine Studies and History

Resumo

Francesco da Barberino’s Officiolum is a priceless Book of Hours compiled in Padua and Treviso between c. 1305 and 1307/8 containing a series of incredibly elaborate, unconventional illustrations, many of which were created by Barberino himself, as declared in his Documenti d’Amore. It has been hypothesized that two of these miniatures in particular - the depiction of Limbo in the Office of Advent and that of Inferno in the Office of the Dead - were inspired by scenes from Dante’s Inferno and thus represent the first and earliest testimony to the spread of Dante’s work in the Veneto. This essay aims to demonstrate that there is indeed no specific evidence indicating that Francesco da Barberino was familiar with Dante’s Inferno at such a point in time and that instead the two miniatures could very well stem directly from the ‘scientific’ knowledge and personal convictions of the artist, as they contain no specific detail to indicate an intertextual link with Dante’s work.

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