Settimo cerchio - Girone II - Violenti contro se stessi

Ninth painting in the 'Inferno di Dante Alighieri' series.

The Seventh Circle, divided into three rings, houses the Violent.

The second round of the seventh circle is the Wood of the Suicides, in which the souls of the people who attempted or died by suicide are transformed into gnarled, thorny trees and then fed upon by Harpies, hideous clawed birds with the faces of women; the trees are only permitted to speak when broken and bleeding.