Artwork

Purgatory, Canto 9 – The Dream

“in dream meseemed I saw, as I looked up, an eagle in the sky, with plumes of gold, with wings wide open, and prepared to stoop”

Purgatory, Canto 8 – Guardian Angels of the Valley

“And I saw, issuing from on high, descend two angels with two swords of flame”

Purgatory, Canto 7 – Princes of the Flowered Va...

“Drawing his finger along the ground, the good Sordello said: ‘Look, e’en beyond this line, the Sun gone, pass nor thou nor any could’.”

Purgatory, Canto 6 – Deaths by Violence

“We all, of old, were slain by violence, and went on sinning up to our last hour” Check out the tin room for the original watercolour paintings.

Purgatory, Canto 5 – Reproaches of Virgil

“‘Why strays thy mind in such perplexity’ the master said, ‘that thou art dawdling so? The things here whispered, what are they to thee? Follow thou me, and let them...

Purgatory, Canto 4 – The Negligent

“and persons had sunk down there in the shade behind the rock, like those whose indolence is by their posture shown”