INFERNO, Canto XVI, illustration 3

Title: "O Florence! Your sudden wealth and your upstart

rabble, dissolute and overweening,

already set you weeping in your heart!"

11.25 x 8.5 inches
acrylic paint on found paper
March 21, 2021

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INFERNO, Canto XVI, illustration 2

Title: "Guido Guerra was the name he bore,

the good Gualdrada's grandson. In his life

he won great fame in counsel and in war.

The other who behind me treads this sand

was Tegghiaio Aldobrandi, whose good counsels

the world would have done well to understand.

And I who share in their torment, in my life

was Jacopo Rusticucci, above all

I owe my sorrows to a savage wife."

15.75 x 10.875 inches
acrylic paint on found paper
March 16, 2021

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INFERNO, Canto XVI, illustration 1

Title: …three shades turned together on the plain,

breaking toward us from a company

that went its way to torture in that rain.

8.5 x 11.25 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
March 14, 2021

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INFERNO, Canto XV, illustration 4

Title: "…if you had any longing for such scum,

you might have seen that one the Servant of Servants

sent from the Arno to the Bacchiglione

where he left his unnatural organ wrapped in cerements."

10.875 x 15.75 inches
acrylic paint on found paper
March 12, 2021

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INFERNO, Canto XV, illustration 3

Title: "Ah, had I all my wish," I answered then.

"you would not yet be banished from the world

in which you were a radiance among men,

for that sweet image, gentle and paternal,

you were to me in the world when hour by hour

you taught me how man makes himself eternal,

lives in my mind, and now strikes to my heart..."

15.5 x 10.875 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
March 11, 2021

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INFERNO, Canto XV, illustration 2

Title: And I, when he stretched out his arm to me,

searched his baked features closely, till at last

I traced his image from my memory

in spite of the burnt crust, and bending near

to put my face closer to his, at last

I answered: "Ser Brunetto, are you here?"

16 x 10.875 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
March 9, 2021

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