XVIII/2 Dante's Hell is a pretty schematic place and no edition of the Comedy is without its map or diagram. Not wishing to be left out, and feeling this to be, as the most complex of the areas of Hell, most in need of some sort of visual aid, I produced here an aerial survey of Malebolge with its ten concentric and descending trenches, each filled with the type of character or action that it holds. The nature of the plan reminds one too of the airborne approach that the poets make on the back of Geryon (whose departing tail disappears into the left of the picture). The bridges that span the ravines are broken, as the map shows, at the sixth: this may be more clearly seen in the cross-section diagram at the bottom of the picture. Above this cavorts a crowd of the type of inhabitants that we are to meet. At the very base of the image is the word Malebolge with a suggested English translation, Malcavities, which I intended to use in the text but decided rather to instance only here. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.