Chiron

My Master said: "Our answer will we make
  To Chiron, near you there; in evil hour,
  That will of thine was evermore so hasty."

Inferno: Canto XII, Longfellow Translation

Drawing by Tom Duff

The Harpies

Face of a Harpy

There do the hideous Harpies make their nests,
  Who chased the Trojans from the Strophades,
  With sad announcement of impending doom;

Broad wings have they, and necks and faces human,
  And feet with claws, and their great bellies fledged;
  They make laments upon the wondrous trees.


Inferno: Canto XIII, Longfellow Translation

Drawing by Tom Duff

Minotaur

Minotaur

As is that bull who breaks loose at the moment
  In which he has received the mortal blow,
  Who cannot walk, but staggers here and there,

The Minotaur beheld I do the like;
  And he, the wary, cried: "Run to the passage;
  While he wroth, 'tis well thou shouldst descend."


Inferno: Canto XII, Longfellow Translation

Drawing by Tom Duff

Three Furies

Head of Three Furies -- Detail

Cerberus

Cerberus

Cerberus, monster cruel and uncouth,
With his three gullets like a dog is barking
Over the people that are there submerged.

Red eyes he has, and unctuous beard and black,
And belly large, and armed with claws his hands;
He rends the spirits, flays, and quarters them.

Canto VI, Inferno, Longfellow translation

Drawing by Tom Duff

Minos

Face of Minos -- Detail

There standeth Minos horribly, and snarls;
Examines the transgressions at the entrance;
Judges, and sends according as he girds him.

I say, that when the spirit evil-born
Cometh before him, wholly it confesses;
And this discriminator of transgressions

Seeth what place in Hell is meet for it;
Girds himself with his tail as many times
As grades he wishes it should be thrust down.

Canto V, Longfellow Translation

Drawing by Tom Duff

Dante in the Woods

Dante in the Woods

Midway upon the journey of our life
  I found myself within a forest dark,
  For the straightforward pathway had been lost.

Dante's Inferno, Canto 1, Longfellow translation

Drawing by Tom Duff