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: Virgil and Dante Encounter Lucifer

Description: Virgil and Dante, minuscule in comparison to the landscape, arrive at last in the final level of Inferno. Judecca is home to those who betray their benefactors, as well as Dis (or Lucifer) himself. His three heads gnaw on Judas Iscariot (shown), Brutus, and Cassius, those men deemed by Dante Alghieri to be the greatest traitors of all. Lesser souls are merely frozen in Cocytus. The engraver, Héliodore Pisan (1822-1890), has placed his signature at the bottom right.

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