Here are two links 1 and 2 for information about the Divine Comedy.
Dali himself thought this suite to be one of the most important of his career and it is considered by many today to be his most incredible and notable work. These works have been created by the technique of wood engraving: a total of 3,500 blocks of woods were carved, approximately 35 separate blocks per image. The suite contains incredible imagery ranging from the grotesque to the sublime, as our artist follows Dante from the deepest circles of Inferno, up the mountain of Purgatory, and into heavenly Paradise. Later, in 1974, a German edition with a stated size of 1000 is also published. Therefore there are 4765 books in French and 3188 in Italian. Two different editors publish the French edition. This results in 100 woodblocks in the French edition. With this technique, wood engravers carved 3500 woodblocks for the prints that make up the book. These drawings are then reproduced using a wood engraving technique. Salvador Dali, in the course of the Divine Comedy project, created 101 watercolor drawings interpreting the book. Finally, after 55 months of hard work the edition was completed the 23rd of November 1963. And the project was dropped in Italy, however Dali and French publisher Joseph Foret continued to pursue the publication of the Divine Comedy by giving the project to Les Heures Claires, a French editing and publishing company. Not deemed appropriate for a Spanish painter to illustrated the work of Italy’s greatest poet, the illustrations were not well received by the Italians. Between 19, Dali was invited by the Italian government to commemorate the birth of Dante Alighieri, Italy’s most famous poet, by producing a series of illustrations for a full-text Deluxe edition of Dante’s masterpiece, the Divine Comedy. The Salvador Dali Divine Comedy is a poem by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), illustrating the journey from Inferno to Purgatory to Paradise. Salvador Dali Divine Comedy – 1963 Salvador Dali – Spain (1904 – 1989)
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