Canto XI takes Dante and Virgil to the First Terrace of Purgatory, site of the Penance of Proud Artists and Knights.
Uttering an expanded version of the Lord's Prayer, the bent-backed souls laboriously advance around the terrace.
As Dante is still in possession of his body and therefore finds the journey arduous, Virgil asks that the two of them be shown the shortest way up the mountain.
Omberto Aldobrandesco, the proud Count of Santafiore whom the Sienese killed in battle in 1259, says they should follow the procession of boulder bearers to the right.
Dante. stooping to see a penitent bent especially low beneath his burden, recognises Oderisi, the 'honour of Gubbio' and 'of the art which men in Paris call illuminating.'
The manuscript illuminator, who died in 1299, states that he now deserves less honour than his colleague Franco Bolognese, although during his life he had craved nothing more than fame.
Like his own, the fame of Cimabue has been eclipsed by that of Giotto.
Oderisi concludes with the realisation that earthly glory is vain; this is confirmed by the heavily burdened soul in front of him: Provenzan Salvani, a Sienese Ghibelline who fell in the battle of Colle di Val d'Elsa in 1269.

Roman fresco from Pompeii, believed to be based on a lost painting by Timanthus from 4th century BC which Alberti, following Pliny, described as a model for the ornamentation of an istoria.
[Timanthus] painted Calchas sad, Ulysses more sad, and in Menelaos, [sic - actually Agamemnon] then he would have exhausted his art in showing him greatly grief stricken.
Not having any way in which to show the grief of the father, he threw a drape over his head and let his most bitter grief be imagined, even though it was not seen.
De Pictura: Book two