Dante Alighiere, PURGATORIO, Canto XIII

Illustration by Salvador Dali
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They gained the second cornice, where the sin of envy is purged; and having proceeded a little to the right, they hear voices uttered by invisible spirits recounting famous examples of charity, and next behold the shades, or souls, of the envious clad in sackcloth, and having their eyes sewed up with an iron thread. amongst these Dante finds Sapia, a Siennese lady, from whom he learns the cause of her being there.