“I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then; but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived.” (Shelley 22).
Dante Alighieri was born in Florence in 1265. His most famous work was The Divine Comedy, in which the character travels through hell (inferno), purgatory, and heaven. His descriptions of hell were awful and horrendous. This passage is describing how hideously ugly the monster, once alive, was—to say that it “became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived” is to say that it is more ugly than hell, than anyone could imagine.
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