signed and dated in the imprint

from “Le 34 tavole di Robert Rauschenberg per l ́Inferno di Dante”, edited in 1965 by Edizioni Macorini, Milan, based on the 1958-59 originals from the Museum of Modern Art, New York, “In the eighth circle, the Malebolge (=evil trenches), shaped like a downward-facing amphitheater, the deceivers and the malicious are located in ten trenches (Bolgia). In the first two trenches (Bolgia 1 and 2) are the pimps, seducers and flatterers.”