Canto XXXII/4: The Lily of Florence

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

At the bottom of Hell Dante still finds his fellow-citizens in plenty – feuding brothers representing the divisions of Guelph and Ghibelline, murderers of kinsmen and other traitors and turncoats – all of whom occasion Dante’s final outburst against his city: so here the lily of Florence suffers its final visual degradation via a re-severed version of the originally severed and computer-distorted emblem.