Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
mi ritrovai oer una selva oscura,
che la diritta via era smarrita.

Ahi quanto a dir qual era e cosa dura
esta selva selvaggia e aspara e forte
che nel pensier rinova la paura!

Tant' e amara che poco e piu morte;

When I had journeyed half of our life's way,
I found myself within a shadowed forest,
for I had lost the path that does not stray.

Ah, it is hard to speak of what it was,
that savage forest, dense and difficult,
which even in recall renews my fear:

so bitter- death is hardly more severe!

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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri : Inferno
translated by Allen Mandelbaum

Another Wacom Tablet study done in Corel Painter 9.0