Story of Nastagio degli Onesti, 1483 (oil on canvas)

Story of Nastagio degli Onesti: Banquet in the pine forest, third panel in a series of four: Nastagio, unhappy in love, invites the woman he loves and his family has a banquet to show them the epilogue of a story similar to his own between a rider and the woman who runs away from him who will end up devoured by the dogs. From a short story from the Decameron by Jean Boccaccio (Boccaccio) Painting by Alessandro di Mariano dei Filipepi dit Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510). 1483. Madrid. Musee du Prado - The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti: third panel from a series of four entitled “The Banquet in the Pine Forest””. Nastagio, a knight from Ravenna, unlucky in love, invites a group of guests, including the young lady who rejected him, and her family, to present the epilogue of a story showing the eternal agony in hell of another merciless woman, one who had also refused to marry a knight. Her rejected love had to pursue her until he had killed her, torn out her heart and intestines and fed them to his dogs. After a Decameron's novella by Jean Boccace (Boccaccio). Painting by Alessandro di Mariano dei Filipepi known as Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510), 1483. Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain