for unaccompanied viola
Dante and Virgil in the first circle of hell, meeting classical poets, including Homer, Horace, Ovid, and Lucan, who were virtuous in life but are condemned to Limbo because they were never baptized; engraving by Gustave Doré
The concept of Limbo is that of a region on the edge of hell for those who are not saved even though they did not sin. Dante's Limbo--technically the first circle of hell--includes virtuous non-Christian adults in addition to unbaptized infants. We thus find here many of the great heroes, thinkers, and creative minds of ancient Greece and Rome. For Dante, Limbo was also the home of major figures from the Hebrew Bible, who, according to Christian theology, were "liberated" by Jesus following his crucifixion.
This piece is my own depiction of Limbo. I imaging its inhabitants growing weary with nothing but their own thoughts for all eternity.