Engraving of a robed man standing alone among huge dark tree trunks and undergrowth, looking back over his shoulder
Dante alone in the dark wood: Gustave Doré's first plate for the Inferno, illustrating canto 1, lines 1-3. Wood engraving after Doré, first published in L'Enfer de Dante Alighieri (Paris: Hachette, 1861). The scan's modern typeset caption is cropped away.Gustave Doré, 1861 · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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