- Dante and Virgil in hell : circle of those who have betrayed their country. - Painting by Gustave Courtois (1852-1923).It depicts a scene from the Inferno; the first section of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.RIGHT: Ugolino della Gherardesca gnawing at archbishop Ruggieri's skull. Ugolino's punishment involves his being entrapped in ice up to his neck in the same hole with his betrayer; Archbishop Ruggieri; who left him to starve to death.- Dante Alighieri (Durante Alighieri; dit Dante)(1265-1321); Virgil (Virgile; Vergil; Publius Vergilius Maro) (70-19 BC).- Oil on canvas (c1880).Paris; Centre National des Arts Plastiques.