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This article provides an aesthetic and semiotic analysis of Domenico di Michelino’s Dante con in mano la Divina Commedia, which appeared in the call for submissions to the present issue of Hermès. The semiotics of the image serves as the basis for the formulation of a set of concepts that show the basis for the concept of intercommunication, that is, of what interferes with establishing communication. Five aspects of the painting are analyzed, which give rise to six concepts that establish what can be called a semiotics of incommunication: 1) the space of incommunication: fragmentation; 2) the aesthetics of incommunication: the representation of the absence of communication; 3) the absence of the other and the questioning of specularity; 4) writing as a form of incommunication: the representation of the Divine Comedy as the absence of the other; 5) the politics of incommunication: manifestations of power and the negation of the other; 6) sublimation and the political imaginary: Babel and the expression of the political ideal; 7) negative sublimation: the figuration of Hell; 8) closed space: the celestial vault and the “legend.”