"Omero poeta sovrano;
L' altro è Orazio satiro che viene,
Ovidio è il terzo, e l' ultimo Lucano."
Nothing is more marked or more deeply interesting than the influence exercised by Dante over Signorelli, an influence he shared with Giotto, Orcagna, Botticelli, Michael Angelo, the greatest imaginative painters of Central Italy.
The background to the circular "Madonna" in the Uffizzi, the "Flagellation of Christ" in the Academy at Florence and in the Brera at Milan, and the "Adam" at Cortona, belong to this grade.
We may add the pages in a predella representing the "Adoration of the Magi" in the Uffizzi.