Art, Symbol & Imagination
Piero of Medicina Addresses the Travellers
Injured figures stand and crouch beside the two poets beneath a raised, armed figure in the darker background. Piero of Medicina speaks from the ditch of those the poem accuses of sowing division and asks Dante to carry a warning concerning two men from Fano. Doré embeds this act of speech in a company already marked by wounds, connecting an individual message to the wider punishment. The printed caption identifies the speaker. The Gallery records his role in the narrative without treating the prophecy, political accusation or imagined injuries as independently verified history.
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Gustave Doré (design). "Piero of Medicina Addresses the Travellers" [editorial title]. In Dante's Inferno, Dante Alighieri. New Edition, undated supplied scan, undated edition, Thompson & Thomas. Source scan leaf 193. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/inferno-dore-186
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Full original plate and caption individually inspected; exact neighbouring canto read. Editorial title. Source tone and intrinsic damage retained; rotation applies only to Gallery derivatives.
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Gustave Doré (design). Piero of Medicina Addresses the Travellers. Dante's Inferno. Scan leaf 193. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/inferno-dore-186