The Divine Comedy: Illustrations by Gustave Doré

 

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The she-wolf appears

Inferno, Canto 1: The she-wolf appears

And a she-wolf, that with all hungerings
Seemed to be laden in her meagreness,
And many folk has caused to live forlorn!

She brought upon me so much heaviness,
With the affright that from her aspect came,
That I the hope relinquished of the height.