Alcune osservazioni sulla 'Virginia' e la 'Lucrezia' di Sandro Botticelli

[Machine translation] The essay addresses some historical, critical and technical junctions related to the two wall panels with 'Stories of Virgina' and 'Stories of Lucrezia' by Sandro Botticelli, kept at the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Having set aside the hypothesis of the origin of the two plates from the Palazzo dei Vespucci in Florence, the essay isolates some visual, technical and formal data that are useful for reading the two works and for identifying the context of origin. The essay also focuses on Sandro Botticelli's relationship with Giuliano da Sangallo and investigates the relationship with Leonardo da Vinci at the time of his return to Florence, at the beginning of the 16th century. The proposed reading places the two works in a more advanced chronology than is usually believed and initiates a new consideration of Sandro Botticelli's later activity in relation to the narration of 'story'.