38Florence, April 1486
Filippino shook himself.
In the hall of Lorenzo minor, everyone was waiting for Botticelli to speak, and explain the meaning of the painting. He raised his glass for a toast, before starting to talk.
«I might be accused of presumption in wanting to trouble our great Dante to explain my painting, which is such a small work in comparison to his. But as you all surely know: there is never one single truth. Therefore, as Dante commented about his Comedy, this work is also polysemous, in the sense that it offers various levels of interpretation. Dante calls the first level literal: it is the one in which our passionate mind tries to understand through the physical senses. But as it cannot understand completely, it then resorts to illusion and the irrational by inventin
