Note 287 — Chapter V · EURIPIDES AND VASE PAINTING (continued 2)
Reading edition
In canto iii, Charon is an old man; Botticelli drew him as the devil. In the second plate to this same canto the souls are swimming out to Charon’s boat, a fact which Dante does not mention. The illustration to canto xx has only two persons identical with those of the poet, and in Purgatorio iii the souls on the shore and in the boat are additions of the artist.