In the circle of Hell reserved for falsifiers, Dante and his guide Virgil look on as two damned souls fight without end: the impostor Gianni Schicchi sinks his teeth into the neck of the alchemist Capocchio. The young William-Adolphe Bouguereau showed this muscular, lurid scene from Dante's Inferno at the Salon of 1850.
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Above the fighters a bat-winged demon hovers with folded arms, grinning at the spectacle. Behind, more of the damned writhe in the smoky dark.
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