While enormous and grotesque with three human heads and six bat-like wings, Dante’s Lucifer (or “Dis”) is neither the cunning Mephistopheles nor the profane, shape-shifting monster of much ...

The Nardo fresco throughout renders the headgear and robes of Dante's upper- class sinners, as is done also in the fragment, especially with the bedecked devil who bears the sign "Avaritia" (Judas, in ...