be fifty times rekindled in its course
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Saturday, September 26, 2020
INFERNO, Canto X, illustration 2
Title: My eyes were fixed on him already. Erect,
he rose above the flame, great chest, great brow;
Thursday, September 24, 2020
INFERNO, Canto X, illustration 1
Title: "O Tuscan, who go living through this place
speaking so decorously, may it please you pause
a moment on your way, for by the grace
of that high speech in which I hear your birth,
I know you for a son of that noble city
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
INFERNO, Canto IX, illustration 4
Title: ...the uneven tombs cover the even plain -
such fields I saw here, spread in all directions,
Thursday, September 17, 2020
INFERNO, Canto IX, illustration 3
Title: Clearly he was a Messenger from God's Throne,
and I turned to my Guide; but he made a sign
Sunday, September 13, 2020
INFERNO, Canto IX, illustration 2
Title: ...all at once three hellish and inhuman
Furies sprang to view, bloodstained and wild.
Their limbs and gestures hinted they were women.
Thursday, September 10, 2020
INFERNO, Canto IX, illustration 1
Title: "Once before, it is true, I crossed through Hell
conjured by cruel Erichtho who recalled
the spirits to their bodies. Her dark spell
forced me, newly stripped of my mortal part,
Wednesday, September 9, 2020
INFERNO, Canto VIII, illustration 4
Title: "O my beloved Master, my Guide in peril,
who time and time again have seen me safely
along this way, and turned the power of evil
Monday, September 7, 2020
INFERNO, Canto VIII, illustration 3
Title: Above the gates more than a thousand shades
of spirits purged from Heaven for its glory
cried angrily: "Who is it that invades
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