This first page is dated with handpainted Roman numeral 26 Mar 1984. Phillips writes, "A year after our first proper meeting, Peter [Greenaway] and I are ready to start; as usual the waiting for finance causes most of the delay...It was only after I consulted my chronology notes I realized and remembered that Dante's journey actually begins on March 26th. Thus the auspices seemed good indeed." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.