DIVINE COMEDY Purgatory; canto X. "The Angel who came to earth with the decree / Of the many years teared peace / Who opened the heavens from its long prohibition." (II; X; 34-36). In an allegorical frame of the work: on the left the Supreme Poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) at the desk; on the right the scene of the Annunciation; placed as a warning for example of pure humility at the beginning of the first frame; where the souls expiate of the proud. Chromolithography from a series by Egisto Sborgi Editore; Florence 1918