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The Dante Factory in Cologny

Published on , by Anna Aznaour

The Bodmer Foundation commemorates the anniversary of Dante's death with a new exhibition on the Florentine poet and mystic

Attributed to Gustave Doré, Dante accompagné de personnages (Dante Accompanied by... The Dante Factory in Cologny

Attributed to Gustave Doré, Dante accompagné de personnages (Dante Accompanied by Figures), oil on canvas, 90 x 140 cm/35.4 x 55.1 in. Martin Bodmer Foundation.

"Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction," wrote Dante Alighieri. But even if none of his manuscripts have come down to us, his fame after his death endures after seven centuries. Although his…
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