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: Ugolino’s Family Begs For Salvation

Description: Count Ugolino della Gherardesca is shown imprisoned inside a tower in Pisa, where the Archbishop Ruggieri has left him to starve along with his sons, Gaddo and Uguiccione, and his grandsons Nino and Anselm. As the young men begin to die from starvation they beg him to end their suffering. 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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