This painting was inspired by a short scene from the Inferno, set in the eighth circle of Hell (the circle for falsifiers and counterfeiters), where Dante, accompanied by Virgil, watches a fight between two damned souls: Capocchio, a heretic and alchemist is attacked and bitten on the neck by Gianni Schicchi who had usurped the identity of a dead man in order to fraudulently claim his inheritance. He put forward an even larger painting inspired by Dante whose work was much loved by the Romantics and who captured all its dramatic beauty. After his ambitious Equality before Death (1849), the young man aimed to create an impression once again. His early submissions to the Salon reveal this fierce desire to succeed. Summary by Leniįor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit failed on two occasions to win the Prix de Rome (18), Bouguereau was hungry for revenge. In this audiobook, we present the four poems in the original Latin, each followed by its translation by H.E. Even though the works were named after Vergil's bucolic poetry, the poems also echo the Georgics and the Aeneid, and are truly a masterpiece by a master of poetry. What we have are two poems by Dante and the answers by Iohannes (Giovanni's Latin name), all in Latin hexameters, emulating the style of Vergil. Read in Latin by Leni and in English by Martin Geeson.ĭante's short correspondence in verse with Giovanni del Vergilio was only published in 1719, but is believed to have been written at some point in the last years of the poet's life. LibriVox recording of Eclogae (Eclogues) by Dante Alighieri and Giovanni del Vergilio.
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