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Archive of the Limited Edition of Dante's Inferno: Canto XXXII/3 / Phillips, Tom., 1983

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Identifier: CC-55279-9999039

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Scope and Contents

XXXII/3 `Caina's depth', as Dante tells us in Canto V, holds the murderer of Paolo and Francesca (Gianciotto Malatesta); when we arrive theres however, he is not mentioned. As a reminder that their story encompasses via its participants the whole of Hell, the murder is recapitulated here: this also points to the re-echo of 'Eve' in the next Canto. Here in the lowest Hell love is dead: and here lies the legitimate lover who killed love. Muybridge might also have found his way down here and therefore it is doubly right that his doves AloNna Ten Ileat btoken and separated and. subject to scrambled photographic processes. With the lurid ghosts of the kinsfolk/lovers on his mind, and their blood on his hands, Gianciotto tumbles down. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1983

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (6 prints (silkscreen) in clamshell box (museum board, paper covered, lithograph)) ; prints 42 x 32 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 12

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. 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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