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Page 48 is titled Dante & Schism. The left hand side of the page consists of a collaged map with Northern Island clearly presented and a red line tracing Phillips' travels. A round circlce at the bottom of Ireland containing the city of Florence, also clearly presented. The right hand side of the page has dense lines of Phillips' diary writings and several sketches. Phillips notes that he visited his daughter Ruth in Dusseldorf. He also mentions Pella working on the sewing of the first volume. At the bottom right of this page is rubberstamped Slegs vir Almal. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This sixteenth page from Dante Diary which is dated 10 Mar 1980 contains two images of "Why save?" and Why spend". On the right side of the page is the verso of a post card with annotation and notes by Phillips.On the top center is a small map of the world and near by is the following text by Phillips: "A poem written in Italy almost seventy years ago now translated by a British artist and illustrated in London wiith help from various printers etc with backing from NY, Miami, Paris using paper made in Wells Somerset for lithographs made with French inks, etchings using copper from (?) silkscreens..." Phillips is off to Paris "ringing up recalcitrant backers and subscribers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This seventeenth page from Dante Diary which is dated 5 June 1980 contains six discs of WHY SPEND and six discs of WHY SAVE? several of which are collaged. The page also contains several ink sketches of the same. In his text, Phillips writes "XXIV/V/LXXX. 43 years old!...Temporarily held up wtih Dante work since Hansjorg [Mayer]has brought along thousands of transparencies, proofs, etc, of a humument and I must work on them...Silkscreens seem to be working out very expensive & I'll probably have to do more lithography." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This eighteenth page from Dante Diary which is dated 20 May 1980 is titled "Dante in the Great Rift Valley." Phillips writes,"Short stay in Kenya & hired a small red Japanese car& drove towards the great rift valley...in the Kenya phone book only one Dante a diesel shop.On the way back saw DANTE in large letters on a wall driving to the airport. A wall I saw a moment later was obscuring the BURBA which was the second name of the same Deisel workshop. Off to Ghana on Ethiopian airways." The fragment from the phone book containing the name of Dante Burba is collaged on the top right of this page.One small red car is rubber stamped and painted and three others are unpainted and stamped with the word carro. A card contianing an abstract drawing of "The ferryman on Lake Nawasha" is collaged on the bottom center. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This twentieth page from the Dante Diary was drawn in Botswana. The image contains colored sketches of four lions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This twenty first page of the Dante Diary is stamped 20 May 1980, Phillips writes that he is in Mochudi, Botswana. The collage elements on this page include a drawing of a lion's head, a rubber stamp of a lion, the seal from the British Council, an announcement of an exhibition of prints and drawings by Phillips, and a large portion from a carton of matches. All contain the image of lions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This twenty second page of the Dante Diary is stamped 5 Aug 1980 and 22 is written on the lower right side. Phillips writes that he is meeting Hansjorg Mayer in Germany to print "A Humument" in three days time. The background collage material includes printed pages of photographs and biography of Phillips, a section of map from London to Germany and snippets of pages from the German telephone book listiing the names Dante and Hell. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the 23rd page from Dante Diary. It contains a printed page of text from Dante's 19th Canto as a base for drawings and diary writings by Phillips.The dates 28 June 1980 and 16 Jul 1980 are rubberstamped. In Phillips' handwritten diary he writes ."The Sackners came to have theri likenesses done & I managed Marvin in 1 1/2 hours (!) & Ruth in two sessions." On this sheet a coffee stain becomes part of the composition along with sketches and drawings.The number 23 is written in the lower right corner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This twenty fourth page of the Dante Diary is stamped 24 in the upper right corner.This page contains a letter of acknowledgemnet of receipt of Phillips' appplication for an Arts Council Award, a card to The Tate Gallery offering the sale of the stage by stage purchase of the Dante Cantos for a 100 pounds per Canto and other miscellaneous ink drawings and collaged elements and diary texts, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Page 29 is rubberstamped "Dante in New York" and contains references to meetings with Martin Ackerman and Richard Minsky.This page has a border of miniature painted sketches, dense diary entries and a collage illustration of a drawing of a head by Phillips from the Royal Academy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This twenty fifth page of the Dante Diary is numbered 25 on the right center edge. This page is stamped 18 Oct 1980 and Phillips writes, "Humument Publication Day: which certainly went quietly enough though went with Jill to Arts Coucil Bookshop to presign some books." The page contains several fragmented collage elemenst including a broken leaf, a cigar band, ticket and torn newsprint with the word Inferno. A rubber stamping at the bottom reads, "With a little help from my Fri..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This twenty sixth page of the Dante Diary is collaged with the torn elements of the letter of rejection of Phillips' application for the Visual Arts Awards and the lists of sucessful receipients. There appears to be coffee stains over sections of the page. The number 26 is faintly written in pencil in the upper right hand side of the page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This twenty seventh page of the Dante Diary is collaged with a printed page that mentions Dante's Divine Comedy, a Varig plane ticket, a scrape of rust colored paper with writing and drawings and a rubberstamping on the top of the page that reads "Dante in Portugal Etc." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Although this page is numbered XXIX in the lower right corner, Phillips has written 28 on the top right corner.This twenty eighth page of the Dante Diary is collaged with a round shinny sphere in the lower right. There is a large sketch in green ink of two men wrestling and over that drawing is a hand printed text which seems to be frrom Dante. Neither of these elements seem to be by Phillips. He has drawn small sketches of page structures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On page 30 Phillips writes "Back from Milan." The border of this page consists of rubberstampings of Dante's profile each of whic has been altered by Phillips. The interior part of the page contains small ink drawings with ideas for the Dante work. Phillips also lists subscribers for the work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Page 31 is Dante in Milano.The drawings of several heads of Pella reflect his love for her. Most of the handwritten text concerns Phillips' visits and strolls around Milan. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Page 321 is titled "Dante in New York. and a Dedication." Tom writes ,"It feels good to dedicate my best work to my best love...In the Algonquin Hotel I gave Pella my dedication which I can't make public yet and the design for her card." On the center of the page, in the midst of large white stencilled letters, can be found the name of Pella in bright yellow. Internet: Usura in Italian means threadbare. The next part of Phillips text relates to the following. "The rich banker Enrico Scrovegni in Padua he built a private chapel between 1302 and 1303, for the decoration was called Giotto, who set to work only nl 1303 concluding work after 850 days of work, it 1305. The intent of the construction of the Scrovegni Chapel had an atoning character, in fact, the rich banker wanted liberal soul of the father from the pains of purgatory for the sins he had committed in life: wear and tear. The only wing of the chapel is longitudinal and covered by a barrel vault, natural light illuminates...

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Page 33 is stamped 23 Apr 1981. The page consists of fragments from A Humument. There are also several ripped papers in Italian describing Phillips' exhibition of pages from his Dante's Inferno at the Libreria Einaudi in Milan. Phillips writes , "First showing of Dante pages in Italy at a bookshop run by Sr. Aldovrandi whose ancestor Tegghenio Aldorandi was one of the dancing soldiers in Canto XVI." To illustrate this fact Phillips has drawn 10 small illustrations of dancing male forms on this page. Included on the top center is a small collage print of Phillips' Dante in his study. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This page 34 is titled Dante in Chinese and contains six small calligraphic drawings made by members of a Chinese cultural delegation to Tom's studio. Described as a "complete mental painting for the Sackner archive, the bottom center contains a sketch for Tom's painting with a small portrait sketch of Marvin. Several small sketches are made for the Dante workn and Tom writes of other developements with the work.The page is stamped with the date 23 Apr1981. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Page 39 is titled Dante in Italy and Phillips writes, "Italy again in search of Dante with Beatrice.First to Milan to deliver Cantos to Henry and Alison Meyric Hughes & Massimo Valsecchi, Thence to Venice where my Virgil (W. H. Mallock) had lingered in A Human Document. thence to Manoria ..and to Raverna where D died and where his bones are now concealed..." Travels continued in Italy with a photograph by Pella of Tom in the doorway of Dante's tomb. The left side of the page contains several architectural drawings of chapel facades. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.