In the field of literary illustration, Sassu depicted some scenes from Dante’s Divine Comedy. This image represents the fight between the wastrels and misers in the fourth circle of the Inferno, and is a compelling work for its skillful rendering of the dark drama of the situation, concentrated in the look in the eyes of the damned soul in the right foreground. The figures of the damned pushing forward terrible weights for all eternity - weights that Sassu represents here as massive cubes - repeat once again the typology of the red men.