Plates

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Pl 1.

The harlot from The Whiteness (Illouz 2008).

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Pl 2.

Chapter 1: Loomings. 2010. Red bister on paper. 60 7/8 × 44 ½ in.

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Pl 3.

Il ritrovamento del Pequod. Oil on linen, 70 × 80cm.

By permission of Franco Fortunato.

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Pl 4.

Il sogno di Achab. Oil on linen, 80 × 80cm.

By permission of Franco Fortunato.

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Pl 5.

Melville’s color lithograph of Francesco Francia’s Marriage of Cecilia and Valerian (Bologna 1505-6).

Berkshire Athenaeum.

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Pl 6.

Melville’s framed, color lithograph of the Bay of Naples.

Berkshire Athenaeum.

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Pl 7.

Washington Allston. The Poor Author and the Rich Bookseller (1811). Oil on canvas. 31 ½ × 28 ¼ in.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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Pl 8.

The great white squid. Dylan Dog. Sulla rotta di Moby Dick. Tito Faraci (text) and Bruno Brindisi (artwork).

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