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Archive of the Limited Edition of Dante's Inferno: Canto XIX/4 / Phillips, Tom., 1983

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Identifier: CC-54966-990378

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Scope and Contents

XIX/4 The misuse of Papal Authority for personal gain is a kind of piracy in high places as Dante states and this is paralleled here by yet another degradation of the Papal Arms as they transform themselves stage by stage into the emblematic cliché of the pirate flag. They betray their station for gold and silver as the coins in the last section indicate, and as its text asserts by means of a pun on the function of the Pastoral Staff and the ambiguity of the word 'crook'. The title (taken from Canto X) is the final ironic reminder of the self-serving behaviour of those who in their lives are meant to think of themselves as the Servant's Servant -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1983

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (13 prints (silkscreen) in clamshell box (museum board, paper covered, lithograph)) ; prints 42 x 33 cm, in box 44 x 35 x 8 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

1904 shelf Phillips Dante Inferno Archive box 8

Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

General

Published: London, England : Talfourd Press. Signed by: Tom Phillips (l.r.13). Nationality of creator: British. General: Added by: BARB; updated by: MARVIN.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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