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Cerberus (Inferno #6)
Ecstatic Visions (Purgatorio #12)
The Dust of Souls (Paradiso #11)
Italian author Dante Alighieri's poem Inferno, or Hell, is probably the best-known of a trilogy of poems called The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. In the 1950s, the Italian government commissioned Salvador Dali to create illustrations for the trilogy. Though the commission was later rescinded, Dali continued work on the project and ended up with 100 watercolors, one for each verse of the trilogy. He then teamed up with French printer Jean Estrade, who put out the first printed collection in 1965 to honor the 700th Anniversary of Alighieri's birth.
In 2000, University of Tennessee alumnus Gary Johnson bought a copy of the collection and then donated it to UT in 2006. The collection was shown at UT's Downtown Gallery in Knoxville. Chrissy Keuper has this feature on the exhibit... 