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</div> </div> <div id="bodyContent" class="vector-body" aria-labelledby="firstHeading" data-mw-ve-target-container> <div class="vector-body-before-content"> <div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Painting by William Blake</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Wood_of_the_Self-Murderers.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/The_Wood_of_the_Self-Murderers.jpg/300px-The_Wood_of_the_Self-Murderers.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="210" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/The_Wood_of_the_Self-Murderers.jpg/450px-The_Wood_of_the_Self-Murderers.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/The_Wood_of_the_Self-Murderers.jpg/600px-The_Wood_of_the_Self-Murderers.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1198" data-file-height="838" /></a><figcaption><i>The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides</i>, c. 1824–1827. <a href="/wiki/William_Blake" title="William Blake">William Blake</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tate" title="Tate">Tate</a>. 372×527 mm.</figcaption></figure> <p><i><b>The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides</b></i> is a pencil, ink and <a href="/wiki/Watercolour" class="mw-redirect" title="Watercolour">watercolour</a> on paper artwork by the English poet, painter and <a href="/wiki/Printmaking" title="Printmaking">printmaker</a> <a href="/wiki/William_Blake" title="William Blake">William Blake</a> (1757–1827). It was completed between 1824 and 1827 and illustrates a passage from the <i>Inferno</i> of the <i><a href="/wiki/Divine_Comedy" title="Divine Comedy">Divine Comedy</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Dante_Alighieri" title="Dante Alighieri">Dante Alighieri</a> (1265–1321).<sup id="cite_ref-tatetext_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tatetext-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It is part of a series which became the last set of watercolours Blake produced before his death in August 1827. The artwork is held in the <a href="/wiki/Tate" title="Tate">Tate</a> Gallery, London. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Commission">Commission</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Wood_of_the_Self-Murderers:_The_Harpies_and_the_Suicides&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Commission"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Blake was commissioned in 1824 by his friend, the painter <a href="/wiki/John_Linnell_(painter)" title="John Linnell (painter)">John Linnell</a> (1792–1882), to create a series of illustrations based on Dante's poem. Blake was then in his late sixties, yet by legend drafted 100 watercolours on the subject "during a fortnight's illness in bed".<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Few of them were actually coloured, and only seven were gilded.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He sets this work in a scene from one of the circles of Hell depicted in the <i>Inferno</i> (Circle VII, Ring II, Canto XIII), in which Dante and the Roman poet <a href="/wiki/Virgil" title="Virgil">Virgil</a> (70–19 BCE) travel through a forest haunted by <a href="/wiki/Harpy" title="Harpy">harpies</a>—mythological winged and malign fat-bellied death-spirits who bear features of human heads and female breasts. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Description_and_meaning">Description and meaning</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Wood_of_the_Self-Murderers:_The_Harpies_and_the_Suicides&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Description and meaning"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The harpies in Dante's version feed from the leaves of oak trees, which entomb <a href="/wiki/Suicide" title="Suicide">suicides</a>. At the time Canto XIII (or <i>The Wood of Suicides</i>) was written, suicide was considered by the Catholic Church as at least equivalent to murder and a contravention of the <a href="/wiki/Ten_Commandments" title="Ten Commandments">Commandment</a> "Thou shalt not kill", and many theologians believed it to be an even deeper sin than murder, as it constituted a rejection of God's gift of life. Dante alludes to this by placing suicides in the seventh circle of Hell, where the violent are punished, alongside murderers, tyrants, blasphemers, sodomites and usurers.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Dante describes a tortured forest infested with harpies, where the act of suicide is punished by encasing the offender in a tree, thus denying eternal life and damning the soul to an eternity as a member of the restless living dead and prey to the harpies. Furthermore, the soul can only speak and grieve when its tree is broken or damaged as punishment for choosing suicide to express grief. Lastly, in another act of symbolic retribution, when each of the blessed and damned returns with his or her body from the <a href="/wiki/Last_Judgment" title="Last Judgment">Last Judgment</a>, those damned for suicide will not re-inhabit their bodies but instead hang them on their branches, both because they denied them in their final act of life and as a reminder of what they denied themselves.<sup id="cite_ref-pinsky_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pinsky-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Blake's painting shows Dante and Virgil walking through a haunted forest at a moment when Dante has torn a twig from a bleeding tree and then dropped it in shock on hearing the disembodied words, "Wherefore tear'st me thus? Is there no touch of mercy in thy breast?".<sup id="cite_ref-tatetext_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tatetext-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In Dante's poem, the tree contains the soul of <a href="/wiki/Pietro_della_Vigna" title="Pietro della Vigna">Pietro della Vigna</a> (1190–1249), an Italian <a href="/wiki/Jurist" title="Jurist">jurist</a> and diplomat, and chancellor and secretary to the <a href="/wiki/Frederick_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" title="Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor">Emperor Frederick II</a> (1194–1250). Pietro was a learned man who rose to become a close advisor to the emperor. However, his success was envied by other members of Frederick II's court, and charges that he was wealthier than the emperor and was an agent of the pope were brought against him. Frederick threw Pietro in prison and had his eyes ripped out. In retaliation, Pietro killed himself by beating his head against the dungeon wall. He is one of four named suicides mentioned in Canto XIII,<sup id="cite_ref-F92_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-F92-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and represents the notion of a "heroic" suicide.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Describing the scene, Dante wrote: </p> <dl><dd>Here the repellent harpies make their nests,</dd> <dd>Who drove the Trojans from the <a href="/wiki/Strophades" class="mw-redirect" title="Strophades">Strophades</a></dd> <dd>With dire announcements of the coming woe.</dd> <dd>They have broad wings, a human neck and face,</dd> <dd>Clawed feet and swollen, feathered bellies; they caw</dd> <dd>Their lamentations in the eerie trees.<sup id="cite_ref-pinsky_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pinsky-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:DVinfernoForestOfSuicides_m.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/DVinfernoForestOfSuicides_m.jpg/150px-DVinfernoForestOfSuicides_m.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="185" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/DVinfernoForestOfSuicides_m.jpg/225px-DVinfernoForestOfSuicides_m.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/DVinfernoForestOfSuicides_m.jpg/300px-DVinfernoForestOfSuicides_m.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1969" data-file-height="2425" /></a><figcaption><i>Harpies in the Forest of Suicides</i>, an 1861 <a href="/wiki/Engraving" title="Engraving">engraving</a> by <a href="/wiki/Gustave_Dor%C3%A9" title="Gustave Doré">Gustave Doré</a>, illustrates the same canto of the <i>Inferno</i>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Although Pietro does not reveal his identity to the travellers in Dante's episode, he does moralise on the act of suicide, asking (as paraphrased by the historian <a href="/wiki/Wallace_Fowlie" title="Wallace Fowlie">Wallace Fowlie</a>) if it is better to submit to chastisement and misfortune or take one's own life.<sup id="cite_ref-F92_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-F92-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Canto XIII, Pietro says, "I am he that held both keys of Frederick's heart / To lock and to unlock / and well I knew / To turn them with so exquisite an art.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Blake shows a number of contorted human figures embedded in the oak trees in the foreground. To the right, a male figure is seated and wears a crown. A female form is hung upside-down and transformed into a tree on Dante and Virgil's left. This figure may have been inspired by Dante's reference to <i>La Meretrice</i>, or <i><a href="/wiki/Envy" title="Envy">Envy</a></i>, to whom Pietro attributed his fall.<sup id="cite_ref-tatetext_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tatetext-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Examining Blake's use of camouflage in the work, the art historian Kathleen Lundeen observes, "The trees appear to be superimposed over the figures as if the two images in the previous illustration has been pulled together into a single focus. Through the art of camouflage, Blake gives us an image in flux, one which is in a perpetual state of transmutation. Now we see trees, now we see people."<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Three large harpies perch on branches spanning the pair of travellers, and these creatures are depicted by Blake as monstrous bird–human hybrids, in the words of the art historian Kevin Hutchings, "functioning as iconographic indictments of the act of suicide and its violent negation of the divine human form".<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The harpies' faces are human-like except for their pointed beaks, while their bodies are owl-shaped and equipped with claws, sharp wings and female breasts. Blake renders them in a manner faithful to Dante's description in 13:14–16: "Broad are their pennons, of the human form / Their neck and countenance, armed with talons keen / These sit and wail on the dreary mystic wood."<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Wood_of_the_Self-Murderers:_The_Harpies_and_the_Suicides&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 25em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-tatetext-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-tatetext_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-tatetext_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-tatetext_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=1099&searchid=8911&roomid=false&tabview=text&texttype=8">The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides: Texts</a>". <a href="/wiki/Tate" title="Tate">Tate</a>. Retrieved on 14 November 2008.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learning/worksinfocus/blake/gothic/dante_intro.html">Illustrations to Dante</a>". <a href="/wiki/Tate" title="Tate">Tate</a>. Retrieved on 15 November 2008.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Myrone, 147</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Fowlie, 90</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-pinsky-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-pinsky_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-pinsky_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Pinsky, Robert. "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://bostonreview.net/BR18.1/dante.html">Dante's Canto XIII: The Wood of the Suicides</a>". <i><a href="/wiki/Boston_Review" title="Boston Review">Boston Review</a></i>,. Retrieved on 14 November 2008.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-F92-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-F92_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-F92_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Fowlie, 92</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Vossler, Karl. "Mediaeval Culture: An Introduction to Dante and His Times". Michigan: Ungar, 1958. 261</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Haskins, Charles Homer. "Latin Literature under Frederick II". <i>Speculum</i>, Volume 3, No. 2, April 1928. 129–151</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lundeen, 148–149</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hutchings, 69</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Paley, 132</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Wood_of_the_Self-Murderers:_The_Harpies_and_the_Suicides&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Fowlie, Wallace. <i>A Reading of Dante's Inferno</i>. 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McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7735-2343-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-7735-2343-X">0-7735-2343-X</a></li> <li>Lundeen, Kathleen. <i>Knight of the Living Dead: William Blake and the Problem of Ontology</i>. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press, 2000. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-57591-041-1" title="Special:BookSources/1-57591-041-1">1-57591-041-1</a></li> <li>Myrone, Martin. <i>The Blake Book</i>. 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title="The Angel (Songs of Experience)">The Angel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Tyger" title="The Tyger">The Tyger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/My_Pretty_Rose_Tree" title="My Pretty Rose Tree">My Pretty Rose Tree</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ah!_Sun-flower" title="Ah! Sun-flower">Ah! Sun-flower</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Lilly_(poem)" title="The Lilly (poem)">The Lilly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Garden_of_Love_(poem)" title="The Garden of Love (poem)">The Garden of Love</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Little_Vagabond" title="The Little Vagabond">The Little Vagabond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_(William_Blake_poem)" title="London (William Blake poem)">London</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Human_Abstract_(poem)" title="The Human Abstract (poem)">The Human Abstract</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Infant_Sorrow" title="Infant Sorrow">Infant Sorrow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Poison_Tree" title="A Poison Tree">A Poison Tree</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Little_Boy_Lost" title="A Little Boy Lost">A Little Boy Lost</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Little_Girl_Lost" title="A Little Girl Lost">A Little Girl Lost</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/To_Tirzah" title="To Tirzah">To Tirzah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_School_Boy" title="The School Boy">The School Boy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Voice_of_the_Ancient_Bard" title="The Voice of the Ancient Bard">The Voice of the Ancient Bard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Divine_Image" title="A Divine Image">A Divine Image</a> (found only in Copy BB)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/William_Blake%27s_prophetic_books" title="William Blake's prophetic books">Prophetic<br /> books</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">The <a href="/wiki/Continental_prophecies" title="Continental prophecies">continental<br /> prophecies</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/America_a_Prophecy" title="America a Prophecy">America a Prophecy</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Europe_a_Prophecy" title="Europe a Prophecy">Europe a Prophecy</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Song_of_Los" title="The Song of Los">The Song of Los</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Tiriel_(poem)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tiriel (poem)">Tiriel</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Book_of_Thel" title="The Book of Thel">The Book of Thel</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Marriage_of_Heaven_and_Hell" title="The Marriage of Heaven and Hell">The Marriage of Heaven and Hell</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_French_Revolution_(poem)" title="The French Revolution (poem)">The French Revolution</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Visions_of_the_Daughters_of_Albion" title="Visions of the Daughters of Albion">Visions of the Daughters of Albion</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Book_of_Urizen" title="The Book of Urizen">The Book of Urizen</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Book_of_Ahania" title="The Book of Ahania">The Book of Ahania</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Book_of_Los" title="The Book of Los">The Book of Los</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Vala,_or_The_Four_Zoas" title="Vala, or The Four Zoas">The Four Zoas</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Milton:_A_Poem_in_Two_Books" title="Milton: A Poem in Two Books">Milton</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jerusalem:_The_Emanation_of_the_Giant_Albion" title="Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion">Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">The Pickering Manuscript</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Auguries_of_Innocence" title="Auguries of Innocence">Auguries of Innocence</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Mental_Traveller" title="The Mental Traveller">The Mental Traveller</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">The <a href="/wiki/Notebook_of_William_Blake" title="Notebook of William Blake">Rossetti Manuscript</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">"<a href="/wiki/Never_pain_to_tell_thy_love" title="Never pain to tell thy love">Never pain to tell thy love</a>"</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="line-height:1.3em;"><div id="Mythology114" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/William_Blake%27s_mythology" title="William Blake's mythology">Mythology</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ahania" title="Ahania">Ahania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albion_(Blake)" title="Albion (Blake)">Albion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beulah_(Blake)" title="Beulah (Blake)">Beulah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bromion" title="Bromion">Bromion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enion" title="Enion">Enion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enitharmon" title="Enitharmon">Enitharmon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fuzon_(Blake)" title="Fuzon (Blake)">Fuzon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Golgonooza" title="Golgonooza">Golgonooza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grodna_(Blake)" title="Grodna (Blake)">Grodna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Har_(Blake)" title="Har (Blake)">Har</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leutha" title="Leutha">Leutha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Los_(Blake)" title="Los (Blake)">Los</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luvah" title="Luvah">Luvah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orc_(Blake)" title="Orc (Blake)">Orc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palamabron" title="Palamabron">Palamabron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spectre_(Blake)" title="Spectre (Blake)">Spectre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tharmas" title="Tharmas">Tharmas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thiriel" title="Thiriel">Thiriel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiriel_(character)" title="Tiriel (character)">Tiriel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urizen" title="Urizen">Urizen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urthona" title="Urthona">Urthona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Utha" title="Utha">Utha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vala_(Blake)" title="Vala (Blake)">Vala</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible uncollapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="line-height:1.3em;"><div id="Art114" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Art</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Paintings<br />and prints</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/All_Religions_are_One#Relief_etching" title="All Religions are One">Relief etching</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Original_Stories_from_Real_Life#Illustrations" title="Original Stories from Real Life">Engravings for <i>Original Stories from Real Life</i></a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Ancient_of_Days" title="The Ancient of Days">The Ancient of Days</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Europe_Supported_by_Africa_and_America" class="mw-redirect" title="Europe Supported by Africa and America">Europe Supported by Africa and America</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Night_of_Enitharmon%27s_Joy" title="The Night of Enitharmon's Joy">The Night of Enitharmon's Joy</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Newton_(Blake)" title="Newton (Blake)">Newton</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Nebuchadnezzar_(Blake)" title="Nebuchadnezzar (Blake)">Nebuchadnezzar</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Night-Thoughts#Blake's_illustrations_of_1795–97" title="Night-Thoughts">Illustrations for <i>Night-Thoughts</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Grave_(poem)#Publication_by_Cromek_and_Blake's_illustrations" title="The Grave (poem)">Illustrations of <i>The Grave</i></a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Four_and_Twenty_Elders_Casting_their_Crowns_before_the_Divine_Throne" title="The Four and Twenty Elders Casting their Crowns before the Divine Throne">The Four and Twenty Elders Casting their Crowns before the Divine Throne</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Blake%27s_illustrations_of_Paradise_Lost" title="William Blake's illustrations of Paradise Lost">Illustrations of <i>Paradise Lost</i></a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Vision_of_the_Last_Judgement" title="A Vision of the Last Judgement">A Vision of the Last Judgement</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Descriptive_Catalogue_(1809)" title="Descriptive Catalogue (1809)">Descriptive Catalogue</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Great_Red_Dragon_paintings" title="The Great Red Dragon paintings"><i>The Great Red Dragon</i> paintings</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pity_(William_Blake)" title="Pity (William Blake)">Pity</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Ghost_of_a_Flea" title="The Ghost of a Flea">The Ghost of a Flea</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Agony_in_the_Garden_(Blake)" title="Agony in the Garden (Blake)">Agony in the Garden</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Blake%27s_illustrations_of_On_the_Morning_of_Christ%27s_Nativity" title="William Blake's illustrations of On the Morning of Christ's Nativity">Illustrations of <i>On the Morning of Christ's Nativity</i></a></li> <li><i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Blake%27s_Illustrations_of_the_Book_of_Job" title="William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job"><i>Illustrations of the Book of Job</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Sketches</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Visionary_Heads" title="Visionary Heads">Visionary Heads</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="line-height:1.3em;"><div id="Scholarship,_in_popular_culture,_and_more114" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Scholarship, in popular culture, and more</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Scholarly works</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Life_of_William_Blake" title="Life of William Blake">Life of William Blake</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Works_of_William_Blake:_Poetic,_Symbolic_and_Critical" class="mw-redirect" title="The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic and Critical">The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic and Critical</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fearful_Symmetry_(book)" title="Fearful Symmetry (book)">Fearful Symmetry</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Blake:_Prophet_Against_Empire" title="Blake: Prophet Against Empire">Blake: Prophet Against Empire</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Witness_Against_the_Beast" title="Witness Against the Beast">Witness Against the Beast</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Musical</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Serenade_for_Tenor,_Horn_and_Strings" title="Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings">Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings</a></i> (1943)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ten_Blake_Songs" title="Ten Blake Songs">Ten Blake Songs</a></i> (1958)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Songs_and_Proverbs_of_William_Blake" title="Songs and Proverbs of William Blake">Songs and Proverbs of William Blake</a></i> (1965)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Lamb_(Tavener)" title="The Lamb (Tavener)">The Lamb</a></i> (1982)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Themes_from_William_Blake%27s_The_Marriage_of_Heaven_and_Hell" title="Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell">Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell</a></i> (1998)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Blake_in_popular_culture" title="William Blake in popular culture">William Blake in popular culture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Blake_Archive" title="William Blake Archive">William Blake Archive</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Blake_(monologue)" title="Blake (monologue)">Blake</a></i> (1983 monologue)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/In_Lambeth_(play)" title="In Lambeth (play)">In Lambeth</a></i> (1989 play)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catherine_Blake" title="Catherine Blake">Catherine Blake (wife)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ancients_(art_group)" title="Ancients (art group)">Ancients</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Dante&#039;s_Divine_Comedy231" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist 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Latini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caiaphas" title="Caiaphas">Caiaphas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cavalcante_de%27_Cavalcanti" title="Cavalcante de' Cavalcanti">Cavalcante de' Cavalcanti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capaneus" title="Capaneus">Capaneus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cerberus" title="Cerberus">Cerberus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charon" title="Charon">Charon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chiron" title="Chiron">Chiron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ciacco" title="Ciacco">Ciacco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ciampolo" title="Ciampolo">Ciampolo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cocytus" title="Cocytus">Cocytus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dis_(Divine_Comedy)" title="Dis (Divine Comedy)">Dis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Farinata_degli_Uberti" title="Farinata degli Uberti">Farinata degli Uberti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Filippo_Argenti" title="Filippo Argenti">Filippo Argenti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francesca_da_Rimini" title="Francesca da Rimini">Francesca da Rimini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geryon_(Divine_Comedy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Geryon (Divine Comedy)">Geryon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gianni_Schicchi_de%27_Cavalcanti" title="Gianni Schicchi de' Cavalcanti">Gianni Schicchi de' Cavalcanti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_refusal" title="Great refusal">Great refusal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gualdrada_Berti" title="Gualdrada Berti">Gualdrada Berti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guido_Guerra" title="Guido Guerra">Guido Guerra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guido_I_da_Montefeltro" title="Guido I da Montefeltro">Guido I da Montefeltro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iacopo_Rusticucci" title="Iacopo Rusticucci">Iacopo Rusticucci</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malebolge" title="Malebolge">Malebolge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minos" title="Minos">Minos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nessus_(mythology)" title="Nessus (mythology)">Nessus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paolo_Malatesta" title="Paolo Malatesta">Paolo Malatesta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phlegethon" title="Phlegethon">Phlegethon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phlegyas" title="Phlegyas">Phlegyas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pietro_della_Vigna" title="Pietro della Vigna">Pietro della Vigna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plutus" title="Plutus">Plutus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pope_Boniface_VIII" title="Pope Boniface VIII">Pope Boniface VIII</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pope_Nicholas_III" title="Pope Nicholas III">Pope Nicholas III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ruggieri_degli_Ubaldini" title="Ruggieri degli Ubaldini">Ruggieri degli Ubaldini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dante%27s_Satan" title="Dante's Satan">Satan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Styx" title="Styx">Styx</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ugolino_della_Gherardesca" title="Ugolino della Gherardesca">Ugolino della Gherardesca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Odysseus" title="Odysseus">Ulysses</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vanni_Fucci" title="Vanni Fucci">Vanni Fucci</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virgil" title="Virgil">Virgil</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Circles of Hell</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_circle_of_hell" title="First circle of hell">First</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_circle_of_hell" title="Second circle of hell">Second</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_circle_of_hell" title="Third circle of hell">Third</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fourth_circle_of_hell" class="mw-redirect" title="Fourth circle of hell">Fourth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fifth_circle_of_hell" class="mw-redirect" title="Fifth circle of hell">Fifth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sixth_circle_of_hell" class="mw-redirect" title="Sixth circle of hell">Sixth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seventh_circle_of_hell" class="mw-redirect" title="Seventh circle of hell">Seventh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malebolge" title="Malebolge">Eighth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ninth_circle_of_hell" class="mw-redirect" title="Ninth circle of hell">Ninth</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Malebranche_(Divine_Comedy)" title="Malebranche (Divine Comedy)">Malebranche</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alichino_(devil)" title="Alichino (devil)">Alichino</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barbariccia" title="Barbariccia">Barbariccia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cagnazzo" title="Cagnazzo">Cagnazzo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calcabrina" title="Calcabrina">Calcabrina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ciriatto" title="Ciriatto">Ciriatto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Draghignazzo" class="mw-redirect" title="Draghignazzo">Draghignazzo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Farfarello" class="mw-redirect" title="Farfarello">Farfarello</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malacoda" title="Malacoda">Malacoda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rubicante" class="mw-redirect" title="Rubicante">Rubicante</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scarmiglione" title="Scarmiglione">Scarmiglione</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i><a href="/wiki/Purgatorio" title="Purgatorio">Purgatorio</a></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alagia_Fieschi" title="Alagia Fieschi">Alagia Fieschi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arnaut_Daniel" title="Arnaut Daniel">Arnaut Daniel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beatrice_Portinari" title="Beatrice Portinari">Beatrice Portinari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beatrice_d%27Este_(1268%E2%80%931334)" title="Beatrice d'Este (1268–1334)">Beatrice d'Este</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belacqua" title="Belacqua">Belacqua</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bonagiunta_Orbicciani" title="Bonagiunta Orbicciani">Bonagiunta Orbicciani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bonconte_I_da_Montefeltro" title="Bonconte I da Montefeltro">Bonconte I da Montefeltro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Casella_(Divine_Comedy)" title="Casella (Divine Comedy)">Casella</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cato_the_Younger" title="Cato the Younger">Cato the Younger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conrad_Malaspina_the_Young" class="mw-redirect" title="Conrad Malaspina the Young">Conrad Malaspina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eunoe" title="Eunoe">Eunoe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Forese_Donati" title="Forese Donati">Forese Donati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaia_da_Camino" title="Gaia da Camino">Gaia da Camino</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Garden_of_Eden" title="Garden of Eden">Garden of Eden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gherardo_III_da_Camino" title="Gherardo III da Camino">Gherardo III da Camino</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giovanna_da_Montefeltro" title="Giovanna da Montefeltro">Giovanna da Montefeltro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guido_Guinizelli" title="Guido Guinizelli">Guido Guinizelli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Capet" title="Hugh Capet">Hugh Capet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacopo_del_Cassero" title="Jacopo del Cassero">Jacopo del Cassero</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joanna_of_Gallura" title="Joanna of Gallura">Giovanna Visconti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lethe" title="Lethe">Lethe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manfred,_King_of_Sicily" title="Manfred, King of Sicily">Manfred</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marco_Lombardo" title="Marco Lombardo">Marco Lombardo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matelda" title="Matelda">Matelda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nella_Donati" title="Nella Donati">Nella Donati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nino_Visconti" title="Nino Visconti">Nino Visconti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oderisi_da_Gubbio" title="Oderisi da Gubbio">Oderisi da Gubbio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Omberto_Aldobrandeschi" title="Omberto Aldobrandeschi">Omberto Aldobrandeschi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pia_de%27_Tolomei" title="Pia de' Tolomei">Pia de' Tolomei</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pope_Adrian_V" title="Pope Adrian V">Pope Adrian V</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sapia_Salvani" title="Sapia Salvani">Sapia Salvani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sordello" title="Sordello">Sordello</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statius" title="Statius">Statius</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Paradiso_(Dante)" title="Paradiso (Dante)"><i>Paradiso</i></a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adam" title="Adam">Adam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernard_of_Clairvaux" title="Bernard of Clairvaux">Bernard of Clairvaux</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bonaventure" title="Bonaventure">Bonaventure</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cacciaguida" title="Cacciaguida">Cacciaguida</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Martel_of_Anjou" title="Charles Martel of Anjou">Charles Martel of Anjou</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constance_I_of_Sicily" title="Constance I of Sicily">Constance I of Sicily</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constance_II_of_Sicily" title="Constance II of Sicily">Constance II of Sicily</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cunizza_da_Romano" title="Cunizza da Romano">Cunizza da Romano</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David" title="David">David</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Empyrean" title="Empyrean">Empyrean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Folquet_de_Marselha" title="Folquet de Marselha">Folquet de Marselha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gabriel" title="Gabriel">Gabriel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hierarchy_of_angels" title="Hierarchy of angels">Hierarchy of angels</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imperial_Eagle" class="mw-redirect" title="Imperial Eagle">Imperial Eagle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_the_Great" title="James the Great">James the Great</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_the_Apostle" title="John the Apostle">John the Apostle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Justinian_I" title="Justinian I">Justinian I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary,_mother_of_Jesus" title="Mary, mother of Jesus">Mary, mother of Jesus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Damian" title="Peter Damian">Peter Damian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Lombard" title="Peter Lombard">Peter Lombard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Piccarda_Donati" title="Piccarda Donati">Piccarda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ripheus" title="Ripheus">Ripheus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solomon" title="Solomon">Solomon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Peter" title="Saint Peter">Saint Peter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Aquinas" title="Thomas Aquinas">Thomas Aquinas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trajan" title="Trajan">Trajan</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Concepts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Contrapasso" title="Contrapasso">Contrapasso</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terza_rima" title="Terza rima">Terza rima</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_refusal" title="Great refusal">Great refusal</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Verses</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Pape_Sat%C3%A0n,_pape_Sat%C3%A0n_aleppe" title="Pape Satàn, pape Satàn aleppe">Pape Satàn, pape Satàn aleppe</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Raph%C3%A8l_mai_am%C3%A8cche_zab%C3%AC_almi" title="Raphèl mai amècche zabì almi">Raphèl mai amècche zabì almi</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Adaptations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Architecture</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Palacio_Barolo" title="Palacio Barolo">Palacio Barolo</a> (Palanti, 1923)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Danteum" title="Danteum">Danteum</a></i> (Terragni, 1938)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Cinema</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/L%27Inferno" title="L'Inferno">L'Inferno</a></i> (1911)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dante%27s_Inferno_(1924_film)" title="Dante's Inferno (1924 film)"><i>Dante's Inferno</i></a> (1924)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dante%27s_Inferno_(1935_film)" title="Dante's Inferno (1935 film)"><i>Dante's Inferno</i></a> (1935)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Dante_Quartet" title="The Dante Quartet">The Dante Quartet</a></i> (1987)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_TV_Dante" title="A TV Dante">A TV Dante</a></i> (1989)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Deep_and_Dreamless_Sleep" title="The Deep and Dreamless Sleep">The Deep and Dreamless Sleep</a></i> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dante%27s_Inferno_(2007_film)" title="Dante's Inferno (2007 film)"><i>Dante's Inferno</i></a> (2007)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dante%27s_Inferno:_An_Animated_Epic" title="Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic">Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic</a></i> (2010)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/La_commedia_di_Amos_Poe" title="La commedia di Amos Poe">La commedia di Amos Poe</a></i> (2010)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dante%27s_Hell_Animated" title="Dante's Hell Animated">Dante's Hell Animated</a></i> (2013)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Botticelli_Inferno" title="Botticelli Inferno">Botticelli Inferno</a></i> (2016 documentary)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Comics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Demon_Lord_Dante" title="Demon Lord Dante">Demon Lord Dante</a></i> (1971)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jimbo%27s_Inferno" title="Jimbo's Inferno">Jimbo's Inferno</a></i> (2006)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dante%27s_Inferno:_A_Graphic_Novel_Adaptation" title="Dante's Inferno: A Graphic Novel Adaptation">Dante's Inferno</a></i> (2023)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gert%27s_Inferno" title="Gert's Inferno">Gert's Inferno</a></i> (2023)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Illustrations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Divine_Comedy_Illustrated_by_Botticelli" title="Divine Comedy Illustrated by Botticelli">Divine Comedy Illustrated by Botticelli</a></i> (1485)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Giraud" title="Jean Giraud">Jean Giraud</a> (<i>Paradiso</i>, 1999)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Literature</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Story_of_Rimini" title="The Story of Rimini">The Story of Rimini</a></i> (1816)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/La_Com%C3%A9die_humaine" title="La Comédie humaine">La Comédie humaine</a></i> (1830–1850)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Earth_Inferno" title="Earth Inferno">Earth Inferno</a></i> (1905)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Cantos" title="The Cantos">The Cantos</a></i> (1917–1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/As_I_Was_Going_Down_Sackville_Street" title="As I Was Going Down Sackville Street">As I Was Going Down Sackville Street</a></i> (1937)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_System_of_Dante%27s_Hell" title="The System of Dante's Hell">The System of Dante's Hell</a></i> (1965)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Inferno_(Niven_and_Pournelle_novel)" title="Inferno (Niven and Pournelle novel)">Inferno</a></i> (1976)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Dante_Club" title="The Dante Club">The Dante Club</a></i> (2003)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Inferno_(Brown_novel)" title="Inferno (Brown novel)">Inferno</a></i> (2013)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Music (classical)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dante_Sonata" title="Dante Sonata"><i>Après une Lecture de Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata</i></a> (Liszt, 1849)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dante_Symphony" title="Dante Symphony">Dante Symphony</a></i> (Liszt, 1857)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Francesca_da_Rimini_(Tchaikovsky)" title="Francesca da Rimini (Tchaikovsky)">Francesca da Rimini</a></i> (Tchaikovsky, 1876)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Francesca_da_Rimini_(Rachmaninoff)" title="Francesca da Rimini (Rachmaninoff)">Francesca da Rimini</a></i> (Rachmaninoff, 1904)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Francesca_da_Rimini_(Zandonai)" title="Francesca da Rimini (Zandonai)">Francesca da Rimini</a></i> (Zandonai, 1914)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gianni_Schicchi" title="Gianni Schicchi">Gianni Schicchi</a></i> (Puccini, 1918)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Divine_Comedy_(Smith)" title="The Divine Comedy (Smith)">The Divine Comedy</a></i> (Smith, 1996)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Inferno_(opera)" title="Inferno (opera)">Inferno</a></i> (Ronchetti, 2020)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Music (modern)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Inferno_(Metamorfosi_album)" title="Inferno (Metamorfosi album)">Inferno</a></i> (1973 album)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dante%27s_Inferno_(song)" title="Dante's Inferno (song)">"Dante's Inferno"</a> (1995 song)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dante_XXI" title="Dante XXI">Dante XXI</a></i> (2006 album)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Place_Where_the_Sun_Is_Silent" title="A Place Where the Sun Is Silent">A Place Where the Sun Is Silent</a></i> (2011 album)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Paintings</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Barque_of_Dante" title="The Barque of Dante">The Barque of Dante</a></i> (Delacroix, 1822)</li> <li><i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides</a></i> (Blake, 1827)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Francesca_da_Rimini_and_Paolo_Malatesta_Appraised_by_Dante_and_Virgil" title="Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta Appraised by Dante and Virgil">Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta Appraised by Dante and Virgil</a></i> (Scheffer, 1835)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dante_in_Hell" title="Dante in Hell">Dante in Hell</a></i> (Flandrin, 1835)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Barque_of_Dante_(Manet)" title="The Barque of Dante (Manet)">The Barque of Dante</a></i> (Manet, 1850s)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pia_de%27_Tolomei_(Rossetti_painting)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pia de' Tolomei (Rossetti painting)">Pia de' Tolomei</a></i> (Rossetti, 1868)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Paolo_and_Francesca_da_Rimini" title="Paolo and Francesca da Rimini">Paolo and Francesca da Rimini</a></i> (Rossetti, 1885)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/La_barca_de_Aqueronte" title="La barca de Aqueronte">La barca de Aqueronte</a></i> (Hidalgo, 1887)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/La_Laguna_Estigia" title="La Laguna Estigia">La Laguna Estigia</a></i> (Hidalgo, 1887)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Sculptures</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Gates_of_Hell" title="The Gates of Hell">The Gates of Hell</a></i> (Rodin, 1917) <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Kiss_(Rodin_sculpture)" title="The Kiss (Rodin sculpture)">The Kiss</a></i> (1882)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Thinker" title="The Thinker">The Thinker</a></i> (1904)</li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Video games</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Majy%C5%AB%C5%8D" title="Majyūō">King of Demons</a></i> (1996)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Devil_May_Cry" title="Devil May Cry">Devil May Cry series</a></i> (2001)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dante%27s_Inferno_(video_game)" title="Dante's Inferno (video game)">Dante's Inferno</a></i> (2010)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Lost_(video_game)" title="The Lost (video game)">The Lost</a></i> (cancelled)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cultural_references_in_the_Divine_Comedy" title="List of cultural references in the Divine Comedy">Cultural references</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_English_translations_of_the_Divine_Comedy" title="List of English translations of the Divine Comedy">English translations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Divine_Comedy_in_popular_culture" title="Divine Comedy in popular culture">In popular culture</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" 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