Gustave Dorés Illustration zu Dantes Inferno. Tafel XXII: Canto VII: Die Horter und Verschwender. "Denn all das Gold, das unter dem Mond ist, / oder je war, dieser müden Seelen / konnte nie eine einzige Ruhe fi Mehr
Gustave Doré's illustration to Dante's Inferno. Plate XI: Canto IV: The Virtuous pagans: "Lost are we and only so far punished, / That without hope we live on in desire." (Longfellow's translation). Put more s Mehr
Gustave Doré's illustration to Dante's Inferno. Plate XII: Canto IV: Dante is accepted as an equal by the great Greek and Roman poets. "Thus I beheld assemble the fair school / Of that lord of the song pre-emi Mehr
Gustave Doré's illustration to Dante's Inferno. Plate XVI: Canto V: "Love has conducted us unto one death; / Caina waiteth him who quenched our life" (Longfellow translation) - Francesca di Rimini discusses he Mehr
Gustave Doré's illustration to Dante's Inferno. Plate XVI: Canto V: "That day no further we read within" (Longfellow translation) - Francesca di Rimini had an affair with her brother-in-law and both were murde Mehr
Gustave Doré's illustration to Dante's Inferno. Plate XVIII: Canto V: Dante is so overcome by the sad tale of Francesca di Rimini that he faints. Yes really. And he fainted as he was being brought into Limbo, Mehr