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Image: Gustave Dore Inferno1

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Description: Dante finds himself lost in a gloomy wood, from Canto 1 of Divine Comedy, illustrated by Paul Gustave Doré (1832-1883). The image is from an 1861 edition of Dante's Inferno, the first part of the poem. The caption reads "'In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray' Canto 1 lines 1,2." Doré's edition can be read online here (Project Gutenberg) and here (Archive.org).
Title: Gustave Dore Inferno1
Credit: https://archive.org/details/dantesinferno00dantuoft/page/n33
Author: Walter Crane
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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