Art, Symbol & Imagination
Gianni Schicchi Seizes Capocchio
One bare figure bites another at the neck while the travellers and a seated observer look on from the rocky bank. The canto identifies Schicchi through an act of impersonation involving Donati’s features and a false testament. Here his restless violence reaches Capocchio, whom he drags across the ground. Doré centres the bite and the resisting bodies, while the observers form a quieter group behind them. This illustration belongs to the poem’s company of impostors; its violence is an imagined punishment and should not be treated as an eyewitness account of the historical Schicchi’s behaviour.
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Gustave Doré (design). "Gianni Schicchi Seizes Capocchio" [editorial title]. In Dante's Inferno, Dante Alighieri. New Edition, undated supplied scan, undated edition, Thompson & Thomas. Source scan leaf 204. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/inferno-dore-197
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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). Gianni Schicchi Seizes Capocchio. Dante's Inferno. Scan leaf 204. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/inferno-dore-197