Agnello’s Merged Form
A man and serpent lose their distinct outlines in the thieves’ ditch.
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Alichino and Calcabrina’s Quarrel
The failed pursuit that sends two guardians into their own sticky pool.
Dante, Inferno
SourceCleansing with the Morning Dew
Virgil uses fresh dew to remove the traces of the underworld from Dante's face.
Dante, Purgatorio
Crossing the Centre of the World
Virgil’s reversal while climbing Lucifer explains the change from descent to ascent.
Dante, Inferno
SourceEnitharmon’s Eighteen-Hundred-Year Sleep
An immense interval of dreaming ends when a trumpet sounds, and Enitharmon awakens without knowing that she has slept.
William Blake’s illuminated mythology in Europe: A Prophecy
Mistaken for Boniface
An inverted speaker mistakes Dante’s arrival for that of a future condemned pope.
Dante, Inferno
The Cord Cast into the Abyss
Dante’s loosened belt becomes Virgil’s signal for the creature below.
Dante, Inferno
The Dream of the Golden Eagle
An alarming dream of upward capture accompanies a movement the sleeping traveller does not witness.
Dante, Purgatorio
SourceThe Easter bells in Faust
The remembered song that interrupts Faust’s attempt to end his life.
Goethe’s Faust, Part One
The Friar Reveals the Broken Bridge
Local testimony corrects the route offered by Malacoda.
Dante, Inferno
The Navarrese Captive’s Escape
A captive’s promise of more informants becomes a successful leap into the pitch.
Dante, Inferno
The Return to the Stars
The hidden ascent that restores a view of the sky at the close of Inferno.
Dante, Inferno
SourceThe Reversal of the Plagues in America
A supernatural assault recoils upon its senders when the Americans gather amid Orc’s red flames.
William Blake’s illuminated mythology in America: A Prophecy
The Threat of Medusa’s Gaze
The petrifying danger invoked by the Furies at the gate of Dis.
Dante, Inferno
The Tower of Famine
The remembered place of confinement within Ugolino’s speech in the frozen circle.
Dante, Inferno
Virgil’s Motherlike Rescue
The guide carries Dante into the next ditch to escape the returning pursuers.
Dante, Inferno
Walpurgis Night in Faust
The crowded mountain revel through which Faust and Mephistopheles travel.
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