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: Filippo Argenti

Description: Virgil casts the soul of Filippo Argenti, fellow Florentine and contemporary of Dante’s, back into the murky water. Filippo Argenti was a gentleman of considerable wealth who was, according to Boccacio’s Decameron, prone to fits of rage. 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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