Face created by scientists ‘shows a brilliant man, but embittered by exile’
Scientists have managed to reconstruct the face of Dante – the famous Italian Renaissance poet and author of the Divine Comedy – using his skull and Boccaccio’s annotations.
Through his work, Dante Alighieri visualized “Hell” and went down in history.
Now, as the DailyMail writes, for the first time in more than 700 years, humanity can see what the poet was really like.
The true face of the artist is shrouded in mystery as even his most popular portraits were created long after his death in September 1321.
According to the Brazilian lead author of the study, Cicero Moraes, in his biography of Dante written by Boccaccio, the poet of the Divine Comedy “was a person of medium height, somewhat stooped, with a long face, a clam nose and large eyes.”
Scientists set out to digitally recreate Dante’s skull using a 1921 analysis of his bones, augmented with data from a 2007 article about his face.
Finally, they managed to give a realistic image of his face, for the first time in 7 centuries.
According to Moraes the face created by the scientists “shows” a tortured man. “He shows a brilliant man, but embittered by exile,” he said characteristically.
The study also revealed that Dante – who is often hailed as the father of the Italian language – had a larger than average skull.
Source :Skai
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