This fifty-ninth page of the Dante Diary, dated December 10, 1982, is stamped in capital letters on the lower right corner "Working out the final page." On the left hand portion of the page is a collaged, hand-drawn diagram of the quilt-like design of the central image of the fourth illustration of Canto 34 . There are, in fact, 34 separate images starting with Dark Wood in the upper left hand corner, and including excerpts from Virgil in his study, Heads, No entry, Papal skull and crossbones, Concrete poem etc. Small print fragments making up seven of the squares are collaged to the top half of the page. Phillips' handwritten text indicates that talks about publishing Dante as a trade book continue. He notes that the first bound copy of Vol II is almost on schedule. He is finishing up bits of work on the last pages and is starting on the acknowledgements and the justification of the tirage. Phillips writes a particularly poignant account of the creation of the final page in the Iconographical notes and commentary on the illustrations in the Thames and Hudson edition. "Paradoxically, of all the images used (and there were many false starts and rejects) this was the first to be drawn when preparing the initial artwork for the version started in 1978. It had escaped the fire that engulfed all the early studies by having been kept at home (since it would not have been needed until towards the end of the printing). Up to the reworking in 1983, it consisted only of the interior text and some of the stars with a blank in the middle intended for a handwritten section of Dante's text: this has now been replaced by a schematised shape which combines the shape of the book with a stylized world/hell/purgatory configuration containing a recapitulation of the principal images in the work, using a collage constructed from many of the plates." It is this schematised shape that is diagrammed in page 49 of the Dante Diary. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.