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| | Dante's Hell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | Although Manetti never himself published his research regarding the topic, the earliest Renaissance Florentine editors of the poem, Cristoforo Landino and Girolamo Benivieni, reported the results of his researches in their respective editions of the Divine Comedy (1481, Florence: Nicolo di Lorenzo della Magna; 1506, Florence: Filippo Giunti). |
 | | 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 Venetian publisher Aldus Manutius' second edition of the Divine Comedy in 1515 followed the example of the Giuntina by presenting a cross-section of the inverted cone of Hell, complete with calculations of infernal mileage derived from Manetti's theories. |
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