person
Dante Alighieri
Dante
Italian poet (1265-1321), author of the Divina Commedia; its visions of the suffering body were a revelation to Rodin and fed the Gate of Hell.
Reading notes
- Auguste Rodin §17 Dante
Italian poet (1265-1321); Rodin read his Divina Commedia for the first time in Brussels and found in it a revelation of the suffering body.