Divina Commedia -Canto II

I had the sketches on my workbook, then yesterday my friend said she likes my Divina Commedia's fan arts .... So I took the occasion and colored them.

These are few scenes from Inferno's Canto II.
The first shows the Virgin Mary (which I find quite scary in my drawing XD), Saint Lucia and Beatrice. 
Saint Lucia is telling Beatrice to look at Dante's troubles.

the second shows Beatrice asking Virgil for help.

Here the quotes from which I took inspiration:

"Ma dimmi la cagion che non ti guardi
de lo scender qua giuso in questo centro
de l’ampio loco ove tornar tu ardi". 84 

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I’ son fatta da Dio, sua mercé, tale,
che la vostra miseria non mi tange,
né fiamma d’esto ’ncendio non m’assale. 93

Donna è gentil nel ciel che si compiange
di questo 'mpedimento ov'io ti mando,
sì che duro giudicio là sù frange. 96

Questa chiese Lucia in suo dimando
e disse: - Or ha bisogno il tuo fedele
di te, e io a te lo raccomando -. 99

Lucia, nimica di ciascun crudele,
si mosse, e venne al loco dov’i’ era,
che mi sedea con l’antica Rachele. 102

Disse: - Beatrice, loda di Dio vera,
ché non soccorri quei che t’amò tanto,
ch’uscì per te de la volgare schiera? 105

Non odi tu la pieta del suo pianto,
non vedi tu la morte che ’l combatte
su la fiumana ove ’l mar non ha vanto? -. " 108

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”Yet tell the reason, why thou art not loth           

To leave that ample space, where to return     

Thou burnest, for this centre here beneath.’   

 
“She then: ‘Since thou so deeply wouldst inquire,                85

I will instruct thee briefly why no dread              

Hinders my entrance here. Those things alone

Are to be fear’d whence evil may proceed;      

None else, for none are terrible beside.             

I am so framed by God, thanks to His grace!              90

That any sufferance of your misery       

Touches me not, nor flame of that fierce fire   

Assails me. In high Heaven a blessed Dame 5   

Resides, who mourns with such effectual grief               

That hindrance, which I send thee to remove,          95

That God’s stern judgment to her will inclines.’              

To Lucia, calling, her she thus bespake:            

‘Now doth thy faithful servant need thy aid,    

And I commend him to thee.’ At her word        

Sped Lucia, of all cruelty the foe,                     100

And coming to the place, where I abode            

Seated with Rachel, her of ancient days,            

She thus address’d me: “Thou true praise of God!        

Beatrice! why is not thy succour lent    

To him, who so much loved thee, as to leave            105

For thy sake all the multitude admires?              

Dost thou not hear how pitiful his wail,               

Nor mark the death, which in the torrent flood,             

Swoln mightier than a sea, him struggling holds?”