Canto XXVI/2: Five Florentines

Silkscreen page proof approved by the artist and signed / initialled by him, taken from the original Talford Press edition of 185, printed on 100% rag, acid-free Inveresk (Somerset) paper

page size 39.5 x 31 cm

1979 – 1983

Among the flames which he compares to fireflies, five Florentines spied by Dante in the perpetual dusk are here represented by five reduced versions of computer-distorted lilies encircled as if in the telescopic sights of a gun, in fact by Letraset photo-registration marks which pinpoint them as unerringly as does Dante's scorn.