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 original artwork from the Museum of Modern Art, New York, “The schemers who sow discord are hacked and mutilated by a demon in the ninth bolgia, drag themselves in an endless circle, heal in the process and are then punished again. A punishment for those who divide and wound society with spiteful words.”