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The Paradise of Fools (Milton's Paradise Lost, 1866) - Gustave Doré
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1866
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And many more too long,
Embryos, and idiots, eremites, and friars. (Book III, 473-474)
In his relentless quest for God's new Creation - Man - Satan reaches an intermediate space between Hell and Earth, where vain and proud dreams dissipate. This is the Paradise of Fools, an allegorical place where souls of inordinate ambition are stranded.
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- Signed lower left: "G Doré".
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Notice #025648
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Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France