List of Figures
- Figure 1
- Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Ugolino and his Sons, 1865–67 (detail).
Image credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Purchase, Josephine Bay Paul and C. Michael Paul Foundation Inc. Gift, Charles Ulrick and Josephine Bay Foundation Inc. Gift, and Fletcher Fund, 1967 - Figure 2
- Abraham Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Descriptio Maris Pacifici (detail), British Library, 009025, Maps.C.2.d.6, 6.
Image credit: British Library - Figure 3
- The Hereford Mappa Mundi, c. 1300.
Image credit: © Hereford Cathedral - Figure 4
- Pietro Vesconte, Portolan chart of Western Europe and the Mediterranean, with the principal powers indicated by means of flags, Maps for the Liber Secretorum Fidelium Crucis, c. 1320–25, additional MS 27376, ff.180v–181.
Image credit: British Library - Figure 5
- Isidore of Seville, Etymologiarum libri XX (detail), MS Latin 7585, 164v.
Image credit: Bibliothèque nationale de France - Figure 6
- Rembrandt Van Rijn, A Woman Making Water, 1631, etching.
Image credit: © The Trustees of the British Museum. In the open access versions, the image is shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence - Figure 7
- MS Strozzi 150, c. 32r (detail).
Image credit: Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence. Permission granted by the Ministry of Culture. Any form of further reproduction by any means is forbidden for the print versions. In the open access versions, the image is shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs International (CC BY-NC-ND) licence - Figure 8
- MS Plut.40.13, c. 25r (detail).
Image credit: as Figure 7 - Figure 9
- MS Conv.Soppr.204, c. 96r (detail).
Image credit: as Figure 7 - Figure 10
- MS Plut.40.20, c. 78r (detail).
Image credit: as Figure 7 - Figure 11
- Figure 10b. Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut.40.20, c. 78r (smaller detail).
- Figure 12
- MS Egerton 943, c. 63r (detail).
Image credit: British Library - Figure 13
- Figures 11b and 11c. Dante 1 and Dante 2.
- Figure 14
- Mermaid, object number 97‐39‐70/72853.
Image credit: courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1897 - Figure 15
- Sirena, Museum of Natural History, Milan.
Image credit: photograph by Andrea Cherchi - Figure 16
- My mother. Image credit: the author
- Figure 17
- Enrico Pazzi, Monument to Dante, 1865, Piazza Santa Croce, Florence.
Image credit: photograph by Jörg Bittner Unna - Figure 18
- Ameca, 2021. Image credit: Engineered Arts Ltd