Dante and His Poem

The Divine Comedy Illuminates Florence, also known as Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy, is a fresco housed in Florence Cathedral. Work of Domenico di Michelino based on a drawing by Alesso Baldovinetti, saw the light in 1465. Dante appears in the fresco with a copy of his Comedy, between the three outerworlds described in the book and a view of Florence, and for the first time he is depicted as being touched with a laurel wreath, an element that is now traditional in its iconographic representation. [1]​