INFERNO, Canto XIX, illustration 2

Title: "If to know who I am drive you so fearfully

that you descend the bank to ask it, know

that the Great Mantle was once hung upon me.

And in truth I was a son of the She-Bear

so sly and eager to push my whelps ahead,

that I pursed wealth above, and myself here.

Beneath my head are dragged all who have gone

before me in buying and selling holy office;

there they cower in fissures of the stone."

12.25 x 10.5 inches

acrylic paint, collage, and watercolor on found paper
November 10, 2025