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read the following excerpt from canto xxxiv of dante's inferno, in wwch dante
and virgil encounter lucifer, and then view gustave dore's illustration of this
scene

the emperor of the kingdom of despair rose up
from mid-chest out of the sheer ice; and i come
closer to a giant's height

i saw that on his head he had three faces
one in front and it was fiery red

and two others, which joined onto this one
above the center of his shoulder blades
and all three came together at his crown

in each mouth he mashed up a separate sinner
with his sharp teeth, as if they were a grinder
and in this way he put the three through torture