Art, Symbol & Imagination
Pia Asks to Be Remembered
A woman stands facing a robed traveller within a quiet stand of tall, slender trees. The figures are separated by a small space of open ground beneath the enclosing canopy. The caption preserves Pia's request for remembrance in Purgatory V. Doré answers that restrained speech with a scene almost free of public spectacle. Upright trunks echo the standing bodies, and the softly lit clearing allows attention to settle on the encounter itself. The composition makes memory a relation between two people, with the surrounding wood holding their brief meeting apart from the larger journey.
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Gustave Doré (design). "Pia Asks to Be Remembered" [editorial title]. In Purgatory and Paradise: The Vision of Dante, Dante Alighieri; translated by Henry Francis Cary; illustrated by Gustave Doré. New edition, 1901, 1901, Thompson & Thomas. Source scan leaf 46. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/dante-dore-45
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Original source design and caption inspected; composition retained with scan margins trimmed. No reconstructed or recoloured details.
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Gustave Doré (design). Pia Asks to Be Remembered. Purgatory and Paradise: The Vision of Dante. Scan leaf 46. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/dante-dore-45