2-709-343 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Amid this dread exuberance of woe ran naked spirits wing'd with horrid fear', c1890. The damned, handcuffed with snakes: 'With serpents were their hands behind them bound'. Illustration from "The Vision of Hell" (Inferno), the first part of "The Divine Comedy" (La divina commedia) by Dante Alighieri. This long, narrative poem, written in Italian c1308-1321, tracing Dante's imaginary journey from Hell, through Purgatory and finally to Heaven and a beatific vision of God, has been published numerous times. This edition, published late 19th century, is illustrated by Gustave Dore. [Cassell Petter & Galpin, c1890]