Dante’s Charon: On Crossings.

By Dan HullUncategorized

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The Ferryman Charon. Gustave Doré’s illustration to Dante’s Inferno. Plate IX: Canto III:

And lo! towards us coming in a boat
An old man, hoary with the hair of eld,
Crying: ‘Woe unto you, ye souls depraved!’