DIVINE COMEDY Purgatory; song V. "My body freezes up the mouth / He found the Archian stolen and that he pushed / In the Arno; and he untied the cross to my breast." (II; V; 124-126). In an allegorical frame of the work: on the left the Supreme Poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) at the desk; on the right Buonconte da Montefeltro; fallen in battle; invokes the Virgin Mary escaping in extremis to the devil who had already come to take him. Chromolithography from a series by Egisto Sborgi Editore; Florence 1918