The Divine Comedy: Illustrations by Gustave Doré

 

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The innocent souls in Limbo

Inferno, Canto 4: The innocent souls in Limbo

“For such defects, and not for other guilt,
Lost are we and are only so far punished,
That without hope we live on in desire.”

Great grief seized on my heart when this I heard,
Because some people of much worthiness
I knew, who in that Limbo were suspended.