Dante finds himself lost in a gloomy wood, from Canto 1 of Divine Comedy, illustrated by Paul Gustave Doré (1832-1883). The image is from an 1861 edition of Dante's Inferno, the first part of the poem. The caption reads "'In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray' Canto 1 lines 1,2." Wikipedia

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