INFERNO, Canto XXXI, illustration 4

Title: Thus my Master to that Tower of Pride;

and the giant without delay reached out the hands

which Hercules had felt, and raised my Guide.

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April 22, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXXI, illustration 3

Title: "Rafel mahee amek zabi almit,"

began a bellowed chant from the brute mouth

for which no sweeter psalmody was fit.

And my Guide in his direction: "Babbling fool,

stick to your horn and vent yourself with it

when rage or passion stir your stupid soul."

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April 19, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXXI, illustration 2

Title: Then taking my hand in his, my Master said:

"The better to prepare you for strange truth,

let me explain those shapes you see ahead:

they are not towers but giants. They stand in the well

from the navel down; and stationed round its bank

they mount guard on the final pit of Hell."

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April 17, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXXI, illustration 1

Title: And as I stared through that obscurity,

I saw what seemed a cluster of great towers,

whereat I cried: "Master, what is this city?"

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April 13, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXX, illustration 4

Title: "…and never forget that I am always by you

should it occur again, as we walk on…"

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April 6, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXX, illustration 3

Title: And then I saw another husk of sin,

who, had his legs been trimmed away at the groin,

would have looked for all the world like a mandolin.

12 x 8.75 inches
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April 5, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXX, illustration 2

Title: …two I saw, pale, naked, and unclean,

who suddenly came running toward us then,

snapping their teeth as they ran, like hungry swine

let out to feed after a night in the pen.

10.875 x 7.875 inches
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March 23, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXX, illustration 1

Title: Hecuba -- mourning, wretched, and a slave --

having seen Polyxena sacrificed,

and Polydorus dead without a grave;

lost and alone, beside an alien sea,

began to bark and growl like a dog

in the mad seizure of her misery.

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April 1, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXIX, illustration 4

Title: "So you will see I am the suffering shadow

of Capocchio, who, by practicing alchemy

falsified the metals…"

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March 14, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXIX, illustration 3

Title: "I am a shade," my Guide and Master said…

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March 9, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXIX, illustration 2

Title: I saw two there like two pans that are put

one against the other to hold their warmth.

They were covered with great scabs from head to foot.

12 x 8.5 inches
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March 8, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXIX, illustration 1

Title: …and from those dead

such shrieks and strangled agonies shrilled through me

like shafts, but barbed with pity that my hands

flew to my ears.

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March 4, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XIV, illustration 3 (alternate version)

Title: His head is made of gold; of silverwork

his breast and both his arms, of polished brass

the rest of his great torso to the fork.

He is of chosen iron from there down,

except that his right foot is terra cotta;

it is this foot he rests more weight upon.

Every part except the gold is split

by a great fissure from which endless tears

drip down and hollow out the mountain's pit.

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March 2, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XIII, illustration 1 (alternate versions)

Title: Here nest the odious Harpies of whom my Master

wrote how they drove Aeneas and his companions

from the Strophades with prophecies of disaster.

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February 27, 2026

INFERNO, Canto X, illustration 2 (alternate version)

Title: My eyes were fixed on him already. Erect,

he rose above the flame, great chest, great brow;

he seemed to hold all Hell in disrespect.

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February 24, 2026

INFERNO, Canto IX, illustration 2 (alternate version)

Title: ...all at once three hellish and inhuman

Furies sprang to view, bloodstained and wild.

Their limbs and gestures hinted they were women.

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February 23, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXVIII, illustration 4

Title: I saw it there; I seem to see it still --

a body without a head, that moved along

like all the others in that spew and spill.

It held the severed head by its own hair,

swinging it like a lantern in its hand;

and the head looked at us and wept in its despair.

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February 22, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXVIII, illustration 3

Title: And one among them with both arms hacked through

cried out, raising his stumps on the foul air

while the blood bedaubed his face…

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February 21, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXVIII, illustration 2

Title: Another -- he had his throat slit, and his nose

slashed off as far as the eyebrows, and a wound

where one of his ears had been -- standing with those

who stared at me in wonder from the pit,

opened the grinning wound of his red gullet

as if it were a mouth...

12 x 8.75 inches
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February 20, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXVIII, illustration 1

Title: Behind us, warden of our mangled horde,

the devil who butchers us and sends us marching

waits to renew our wounds with his long sword

when we have made the circuit of the pit;

for by the time we stand again before him

all the wounds he gave us last have knit.

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February 17, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXVII, illustration 4

Title: And so it left, and we

crossed over to the arch of the next fosse

where from the iron treasury of the Lord

the fee of wrath is paid to the Sowers of Discord.

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February 14, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXVII, illustration 3

Title: "Later, when I was dead, St. Francis came

to claim my soul, but one of the Black Angels

said: 'Leave him. Do not wrong me. This one's name

went into my book the moment he resolved

to give false counsel.'"

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February 8, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXVII, illustration 2

Title: "Polenta's eagles brood

over her walls, and their pinions cover Cervia. 

The city that so valiantly withstood

the French, and raised a mountain of their dead,

feels the Green Claws again. Still in Verrucchio

the Aged Mastiff and his Pup, who shed

Montagna's blood, raven in their old ranges.

The cities of Lamone and Santerno

are led by the white den's Lion, he who changes

his politics with the compass."

12.25 x 10 inches
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February 7, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXVII, illustration 1

Title: Now, as it left us

with the sweet Poet's license, another came

along that track and our attention turned

to the new flame: a strange and muffled roar

rose from the single tip to which it burned.

11.875 x 9 inches
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February 6, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXVI, illustration 4

Title: "…we sighted, dark in space, a peak so tall

I doubted any man had seen the like."

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January 30, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXVI, illustration 3

Title: "Master," I said, "your words make me more sure,

but I had seen already that it was so

and meant to ask what spirit must endure

the pains of that great flame which splits away

in two great horns, as if it rose from the pyre

where Eteocles and Polynices lay?"

He answered me: "Forever round this path

Ulysses and Diomede move in such dress

united in pain as they once were in wrath..."

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January 26, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXVI, illustration 2

Title: I stood on the bridge, and leaned out from the edge;

so far, that but for a jut of rock I held to

I should have been sent hurtling from the ledge

without being pushed.

17 x 11 inches
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January 25, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXVI, illustration 1

Title: I mourned among those rocks, and I mourn again

when memory returns to what I saw…

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January 24, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXV, illustration 4

Title: Responding sympathetically to each other,

the reptile cleft his tail into a fork,

and the wounded sinner drew his feet together.

The sinner's legs and thighs began to join:

they grew together so, that soon no trace

of juncture could be seen from toe to loin.

Point by point the reptile's cloven tail

grew to the form of what the sinner lost;

one skin began to soften, one to scale.

10.75 x 15.75 inches
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January 23, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXV, illustration 3

Title: For suddenly, as I watched, I saw a lizard

come darting forward on six great taloned feet

and fasten itself to a sinner from crotch to gizzard.

Its middle feet sank in the sweat and grime

of the wretch's paunch, its forefeet clamped his arms,

its teeth bit through both cheeks. At the same time

its hind feet fastened on the sinner's thighs:

its tail thrust through his legs and closed its coil

over his loins. I saw it with my own eyes!

12 x 8.75 inches
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January 20, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXV, illustration 2

Title: …and there

I saw a furious Centaur race up, roaring: 

"Where is the insolent blasphemer? Where?"

I do not think as many serpents swarm

in all the Maremma as he bore on his back

from the haunch to the first sign of our human form.

Upon his shoulders, just behind his head

a snorting dragon whose hot breath set fire

to all it touched, lay with its wings outspread.

My Guide said: "That is Cacus."

12.25 x 10.75 inches
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January 12, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXV, illustration 1

Title: When he had finished, the thief -- to his disgrace--

raised his hands with both fists making figs,

and cried: "Here, God, I throw them in your face!"

10.125 x 6.375 inches
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January 10, 2026

INFERNO, Canto IX, illustration 1 (alternate versions)

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,

to enter through this gate, and summon out

a spirit from Judaica."

12.25 x 10.5 inches
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January 9, 2026

INFERNO, Canto VIII, illustration 2 (alternate version)

Title: And shortly after, I saw the loathesome spirit

so mangled by a swarm of muddy wraiths

that to this day I praise and thank God for it.

"After Filippo Argenti!" all cried together. 

The maddog Florentine wheeled at their cry

and bit himself for rage.

15.75 x 10.75 inches
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January 5, 2026