INFERNO, Canto X, illustration 3

Title: "But the face of her who reigns in Hell shall not

be fifty times rekindled in its course

before you learn what griefs attend that art."

15.5 x 10.875 inches
acrylic paint, collage, and ink on found paper
September 30, 2020

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INFERNO, Canto X, illustration 2

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.

15.5 x 10.875 inches
acrylic paint, collage, and ink on found paper
September 25, 2020

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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

which perhaps I vexed too much in my time on earth."

11.75 x 7.875 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
September 23, 2020

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INFERNO, Canto IX, illustration 4

Title: ...the uneven tombs cover the even plain -

such fields I saw here, spread in all directions,

except that here the tombs were chests of pain

12.25 x 10.5 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
September 21, 2020

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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

that I should keep my silence and bow down.

12.25 x 10.5 inches
acrylic paint, collage, and ink on found paper
September 16, 2020

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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.

15.5 x 10.875 inches
acrylic paint, collage, and ink on found paper
September 12, 2020

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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,

to enter through this gate, and summon out

a spirit from Judaica."

12.25 x 10.5 inches
acrylic paint, collage, and ink on found paper
September 9, 2020

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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

stand by me now," I cried…

16.25 x 11 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
September 7, 2020

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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

Death's Kingdom in his life?"

15.5 x 10.875 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
September 5, 2020

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INFERNO, Canto VIII, illustration 2

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.

15.5 x 10.875 inches
acrylic paint, collage, and ink on found paper
August 7, 2020

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INFERNO, Canto VIII, illustration 1

Title: Returning to my theme, I say we came

to the foot of a Great Tower; but long before

we reached it through the marsh, two horns of flame

flared from the summit, one from either side

and then, far off, so far we could scarce see it

across the mist, another flame replied.

11.25 x 10.75 inches
collage and ink on found paper
August 4, 2020

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