print
- Museum number
- 1901,1022.1213
- Title
- Object: Danthes Aligerius Florenti
- Description
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Amerigo Vespucci measuring the Southern Cross: a standing man in a nocturnal landscape looking at the constellation of the Southern Cross holding an astrolabe; a table of astronomical equipment before him; three sleeping soldiers around him, and a boat drawn up on a shore at lower left; at upper right a cartouche with a portrait of Dante Alighieri in a garland of laurel with a citation from "Purgatorio"
Etching
- Production date
- 1740-1787
- Dimensions
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Height: 201 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 146 millimetres (trimmed)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The inscriptions contain verses from Dante's Purgatory about the constellation of the Southern Cross (I, 22-27). In the picture Amerigo Vespucci is measuring the earth's circumference basing the calculation on the same constellation.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: La Divina Commedia, Purgatorio (vv. 1.22-27)
- Acquisition date
- 1901
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1901,1022.1213