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| | Dante's Hell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | The Florentine mathematician and architect Antonio Manetti (1423-1497) is generally considered the founder of the study of Dantean cosmography, and is particularly noted for his investigations into the site, shape and size of Dante's Hell. |
 | | It included for the first time a series of woodcuts specifically intended to illustrate Dante's cosmography and in particular, the structure of Dante's Hell (a, b, c, d, e, f, g). |
 | | The study of Dantean cosmography was a primarily Florentine or Tuscan preoccupation throughout the Renaissance. |
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