Clavis Libri

Theme

Art

Art and the artist: creation, poetry, music, the place of art in life.

The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov

the manuscript burned in chapter 13 and returned intact in chapter 24.

Purgatory

Dante Alighieri

the Casella song that consoles and makes one forget the way (Canto II), the images read in the stone as speech (Canto X), Oderisi and the empty glory of the arts (Canto XI), Bonagiunta and the sweet new style (Canto XXIV), Guinizelli and Arnaut, who pass the praise back and forth (Canto XXVI), the invocation to the Muses (Canto XXIX) and the brake of art that closes the canticle (Canto XXXIII).