. > es ee % Sw: Su! aie ve @ a — wate TATE int cae Baty ne x Saat , a Hi ‘ Fs 9 = J ~ ae Lb ; VO ———~tr~ ELS i rs ese _ > Re >t Bee tel oP an Cine ih . _~-_} J era 7s hor The first cover Teproadte 5 the Sortsalt ‘of Dante Alighieri(1265-1221) of Divina Comedia, born at Florence, about the middle of May 1265. This greatess: italian poet was: dascended. from gsranhers have attemted very slight einani one of the, oldest senatorial Dante himself does not, ‘with ancient grunds: to. ‘deduce families of: Rome. the excentionof a family his origin few.obscure aus and his bio-* from the Fran*® and scat tered* allusions, carry his ancestry.beyond the warriorlacciaguida, whom he met in: the sphere of Mars, Dante was born under the sign of the. twins "the eee Pee Sere" res “nant: With -the virtue, to vhom he owes his. genius such as it is." We know little of Dante's yernogd except that. he was a hard. student and a pupil of Brunetto Latini. ; # Leonardo Bruni says that! by: study of philosophy, of dhadtosré: ‘astrology, * arithmetic and geometry, by reading’ of history, oy the turning over. vnany curious. books, watching and sweatins in his studies, Bik acquired the science which | he * was to-adorn He was and explain an intimatc in his friend verses. of Giotto, io has Senarealived his youthfil Li neanent san, the Chanel ‘of Bargello and wig is recorded to have drawn his fiend's ins>irationthe’ allegories of virtue and vice which fringe the frescoes of, the * Scroveeni Chapel » at Padua- On March 10 ,1302,. Dante and fourteen others were con demned to be burned. alive if they should’ come:into the power of the republic. Then he. never ‘again saw the towers of hi’s. native city. Similar sentences were passed in Seytember 1311 and October 1315, The sentence See sed til 149%). Undar the Covernement ofthe Medici, we ae Last “ty6 years of hes: ‘life were ‘spent, at Ravenna, under y. rever ‘ite protects jon of Guido ‘da; Poleénta,,...07>~ At Ravenna he died. September ws, ‘13eLs ‘His ‘bones still repo sé thete, This portrait, is” a work by Grollay Geszener and painter of the Breve A-* cademy ‘of.i {ilang. . With this and precedent artistic. Sr the purvose of the aunt thor is to: give: ‘an impressions oftacquaforte", by simple engraving on stencils By same method many: ‘other reproductions of italian artistic masterpieces were shown an this magazines ze as es ak to . nen, sy cae | rial The undercevar represents the Monument to Legnano of Butti. This. of the nati he. ie uP ErenS SeetaeT ‘Teutons: of Federico ‘Parvarosse . yeune bolle. ee ne Sok a memo= oe gk Gallory in Catedral ,- at WLoranca, by Dona he: Puddoee: Bb Brieldensh ei the master -of delicatc relief. and dignified: realism, Donatello. had. alte cuilt, in collaberation. were Mieheloz zo the ‘mirable vag The um of. the The nies one was bud Opera, del Duomo. one =. ay Tuca. dolla Rovbia “and. it | by: Donatello. is one. Ege apes “Behind a.sort of Gallery, Cons isting Ae “ ehadaear in the of double order the Muse- of ten little Colum is also world. in ns, linking. together two shapely. frameg on a ‘background: sof..golden mosaic, is wil sible as ‘if. thy were.push by. springtime wind, a group.of. noisy cildren, half ng. ked urchins of Florence, dancing and running:.after each other, as alive as if ¥ they were in the flesh,