Ph.D. Natalia Sredinskaya, Chief Curator of the Western European Section of the Scientific and Historical Archive of the St. Petersburg Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences reports about a fragment of a handwritten book from the collection of N.P. Likhachev on parchment belonging to the 15th century – a list of Dante Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy” from the “Inferno” part – in the program “Autograph of History”. Air on November 20, 2021.

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