Book Title: Dante's Inferno; Translated by the Rev. Henry Francis Cary, M.A. from the original of Dante Alighieri, and illustrated with the designs of M. Gustave Doré.

Author: Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321

Image Title: Portrait of Dante Alighieri

Description: Portrait of Dante Alghieri (1265-1321). This portrait of the author engraved by shows Dante as an older man, with stern and unyielding features. He wears a laurel crown which, although not part of his raiment in the Divine Comedy, has nonetheless been adopted into his portrait tradition as a symbol of his station. The engraver, Stéphane Pannemaker (1847-1930), has placed his signature at the bottom right, while the artist Gustave Doré (1832-1888) has placed his signature at the bottom left.

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