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 pen, ink and watercolour over pencil and chalk (NGV 14) Felton Bequest, 1920 999-3 National Gallery of Victoria Inferno XVII, 1-27 and 79-123. Virgil and Dante are carried on the back of the monster Geryon from the third ring of the seventh circle down to Malebolge in the eighth circle. In antiquity Geryon was a monster with three heads, six arms and three bodies joined together at the waist; he was slain by Hercules. In the middle ages, however, Geryon was equated with fraud, with the face of a just man but the body of a reptile. |
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