Canto XXVII/1 As in the example given by Dante of the artificer of the Sicilian Bull, the devisers of guileful intricacy are finally and eternally trapped in their own machinations, becoming part of the schemes that were once part of themselves. The famous, rather cold-looking arrogant boy at the bottom left of the image seems to dream his Macchiavellian and megalomaniacal dreams and spins a mechanical web of devices. So Guido da Montefeltro spins his tale of dupes, stratagems and accomplices and we learn how he, the crafty, becomes in turn the dupe of a craftier Pope. The cast of any such tale is indicated here by faces which emerge from and disappear back into the mechanistic maze (they are easiest discerned with half-closed eyes; or appropriate suspicion). The collage is from the Boy's Own Paper (rich in impossible tasks of DIY engineering) and the Illustrated London News. Around the picture is a hand drawn frame of netting, to refer both to a tangled web of deceit and to hint forward to the Franciscan fabric that Guido unavailingly wears at his end. The predominant mechanical motif is that of wheels (within wheels within etc.) -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.