Gustave Doré (1832-1883) was a French artist, illustrator and sculptor.
In Italy, he gained endless fame because of his beautiful illustrations of Dante’s Divina Commedia.
Read more42 astonishing Dante’s Inferno illustrations by Gustave Doré
Ugolino, the Cannibal Count
‘Father our pain’, they said,
‘Will lessen if you eat us you are the one
Who clothed us with this wretched flesh: we plead
For you to be the one who strips it away’.
… And I,
Already going blind, groped over my brood
Calling to them, though I had watched them die,
For two long days. And then the hunger had more
Power than even sorrow over me
(Canto XXXIII, ln.)