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Inferno (Hell), Canto 7 – Misers and Squanderers

“Here saw I crowds, more dense than elsewhere, throng this side and that, who, with loud howls, by sway and heave of chest were rolling weights along” 

Inferno (Hell), Canto 6 – Cerberus

“Cerberus, fell beast, whose like was never found, with three gullets in dog-like fashion howls over the people lying there half-drown’d”

Inferno (Hell), Canto 5 – Minos

“There presides Minos, grisly sight to face, snarling; inspects the faults as they come in, dooms and, by how he girds them, allots their place”

Inferno (Hell), Canto 4 – Limbo

“but all the while were passing through the wood, the wood, I mean, of spirits crowded thick” Check out the tin room for the original watercolour paintings.

Inferno (Hell), Canto 3 – Charon and the Passag...

“And lo, to us-ward on shipboard drew near one, white with hoary locks, exceeding old, exclaiming, ‘Woe to you, spirits sinister!’”

Inferno (Hell), Canto 2 – Virgil Comforts Dante

“I was among those biding in suspense, when hailed me a dame, so blessed and so fair, I begged her to command my obedience”