Elephant folio edition.
"Scarce the ascent
Began, when, lo! a panther, nimble, light,
And cover'd with a speckled skin, appear'd,
Nor, when it saw me, vanish'd ..."
Canto I, lines 29-32.
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Illustration from Dante Alighieri’s “Inferno,” Gustave Dore, 1857
Canto 9, Verses 87 – 89.
Illustration from Dante Alighieri’s “Inferno,” Johannnes Stradanus, 1587
Canto 8.
Male nude, head and shoulder, Franz von Stuck, circa 1908
Study for “Inferno” (1908).
It would be a hell of a lot of fun.
My latest brilliant idea — somebody should make a board game based on Dante’s Inferno. Like a send-up of Monopoly or Sorry.
Hell, you wouldn’t even need advertising art. All those Gustave Dore illustrations are in the public domain.
RUN WITH THIS, people.
Pictured: fun.
Illustration of Canto 7 of Dante Alighieri’s “Inferno,” by Gustave Dore, 1892
The artist died in 1883. The date above refers to the illustration’s publication by Cassell and Company in its 1892 edition of Dante’s Inferno.
The caption reads, “Now seest thou, Son!/ The souls of those, whose anger overcame. — Canto VII, Lines 118-119.”
Illustration of Canto XIX of Dante Alighieri’s “Inferno,” Gustave Dore, 1857
Engraving.
Illustration of Charon for Dante Alighieri’s “Inferno,” Gustave Dore, 1857
Engraving. Plate IX: Canto III: Arrival of Charon. “And lo! towards us coming in a boat / An old man, hoary with the hair of eld, / Crying: ‘Woe unto you, ye souls depraved!'” (Longfellow’s translation) “And, lo! toward us in a bark / Comes an old man, hoary white with eld, / Crying “Woe to you, wicked spirits!”
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