PCT4265335: Dante and Virgil meet the Minotaur. Engraving from The Hell by Dante Alighieri (the Divine Comedie) illustrated by Gustave Dore. French edition of 1861. “E in su la punta della rotta lacca/L'infamia di Creti era distesa. (On the high top of the rock lay the reproach of Crete)”, song 12, v. 11 & 12., Dore, Gustave (1832-83) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4266981: The writer Cervantes rides on a wing horse (Pegase), his book “Don Quixote” and a feather in his hand, flying over other writers carrying (heavily!) their books. Engraving by Gustave Dore illustrating the 1869 Hachette edition of the book “” L'ingenieux hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha”” (Mancha) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, translation by Louis Viardot, 370 compositions engraved on wood by H. Pisan., Dore, Gustave (1832-83) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4275903: L'Hell (La divina commedia) by Dante Alighieri illustrated by Gustave Dore. Edition Hachette 1861. French translation by Pier-Angelo Fiorentino. Dante et Virgile face aux demons: Appena furo i pie suoi giunti al letto - Del fondo giu, ch'ei giunsero in sul glue - Sovresso noi... (hardly had he touched the foot of the pit, that the demons appeared on the hill above our heads) - Twenty-third song (Song 23 - XXIII) - (ca. 52, 53, 54)., Dore, Gustave (1832-83) / Bridgeman Images