Dialogo di Antonio Manetti ... circa al sito, forma, & misure dello Inferno di Dante Alighieri poeta excellentissimo
A 1506 Florentine printed dialogue by Antonio Manetti, published by Filippo di Giunta, measuring the site, shape and dimensions of Dante's Inferno for a scholarly readership. The three woodcut diagrams show the funnel-shaped Hell with its labelled circles of sin, a concentric ring map of the cosmos, and a cross-section of the cavern with the sinners' stages marked along a curving path. A designer could draw on their stacked tiers, rocky cave textures and dense hand-lettered labels for diagrammatic layouts.
