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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Masterpieces of DGR
DGR: An Illustrated Memorial
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
A Catalogue Raisonné
A Catalogue Raisonné
Inscribed on the left panel above Beatrice's head: ‘Domicella Beatrix de
Portinaris’; above the head of Dante: ‘Dantes de Alghieris’.
The date ‘9 JUN: 1290’ is written above the central oval
and below it reads, ‘QUOMODO SEDET SOLA CIVITAS!’
Inscribed on the right panel on a scroll in each upper corner are the words ‘Hortus Eden’ and behind Dante's head: ‘Poeta Dantes de Alghieris de Florentia’. Rossetti wrote behind the head of Beatrice: ‘ Beata Beatrix’.
Inscribed on the frame in the upper center are the words ‘SALUTATIO
BEATRICIS’. In the lower center, Rossetti wrote: ‘IN
TERRA ET IN EDEN.’. Above the left panel are the words; ‘Questa
mirabile Donna apparve a me, vestita di colore bianco, in mezzo di due gentile donne di piu
lunga etade (VITA NUOVA. Cap: II.)’. Below the left panel, he wrote
‘Negli occhi porta la mia Donna amore’. He wrote above the right panel on
the frame, ‘Sovra candido vel cinta d'uliva, Donna m'apparve sotto verde manto
Vestita di color di fiamma viva. (DIV. COM:Perg:C.XXX)’. Below this right panel he wrote, ‘Guardami ben: ben son,
ben son Beatrice’.