DIVINE COMEDY Purgatory; canto VII. "Hello; Regina; in the greenery and in the 'flowers / Here I sat singing souls I saw; / That for the valley did not seem outside." (II; VII; 82-84). In an allegorical frame of the work: on the left the Supreme Poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) at the desk; on the right Sordello indicates to Virgil the souls of negligent princes. Chromolithography from a series by Egisto Sborgi Editore; Florence 1918