* " Vanni Fucci Is Alive and Well and Living In Hell ", a 1988 short story lampooning televangelists included in Prayers to Broken Stones, is about a brief return to earth by the title character, an inhabitant of Dante's Inferno

* The Hollow Man ( 1992 ) is influenced by Dante's Inferno and T. S. Eliot

In Canto X Circle 6 (" Where the heretics lie ") of Dante's Inferno, Epicurus and his followers are criticized for supporting a materialistic ideal when they are mentioned to have been condemned to the Circle of Heresy.

Jason is briefly mentioned in Dante's Divine Comedy in the poem Inferno.

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File: Blake Hell 34 Lucifer. jpg | Lucifer, by William Blake, for Dante's Inferno, canto 34

* The 2010 EA video game Dante's Inferno as a boss alongside a giant Cleopatra in the second circle of hell ( lust ), his last words to Cleopatra are " you said we'd be together for eternity " before disappearing.

The Minotaur ( infamia di Creti, " infamy of Crete "), appears briefly in Dante's Inferno, in Canto 12 ( l. 12-13, 16-21 ), where Dante and Virgil find themselves picking their way among boulders dislodged on the slope, and preparing to enter into the Seventh Circle.

The story is in four segments, inspired by Dante's Inferno: the Anteinferno, the Circle of Manias, the Circle of Shit, and the Circle of Blood.

His treachery is considered so notorious that his name has long been synonymous with traitor, a fate he shares with Benedict Arnold, Marcus Junius Brutus ( who too is depicted in Dante's Inferno, suffering the same fate as Judas along with Cassius Longinus ), and Vidkun Quisling.

Dante's influence is everywhere seen in the Decameron, from its subtitle ( a reference to Inferno, v ) to its physical arrangement and careful attention to medieval numerology.

* Great Demon King Zenon, a three-headed ( reminiscent of Satan in Dante's Inferno ) leader of the demons in the manga and anime Devilman.

* In Dante's Inferno, Brutus is one of three people deemed sinful enough to be chewed in one of the three mouths of Satan, in the very center of Hell, for all eternity.

* The City of Ravenna is mentioned in Canto V in Dante's Inferno.

Others attribute the name to Dante's Inferno, XXI, XXII and XXIII ; one of the devils in Hell having the name Alichino.

In Dante's Divine Comedy, the flaming tombs of the Epicureans are located within the sixth circle of hell ( Inferno, Canto X ).

Examples include Independence Day, Daylight, Earthquake, 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, Poseidon, The Towering Inferno, Dante's Peak, Deep Impact, Volcano, The Core, Armageddon and Twister.

In Dante's Inferno, unforgiven souls of the sin of lust are blown about in restless hurricane-like winds symbolic of their own lack of self control to their lustful passions in earthly life.

An earlier video game series based on the Assassins is the Exile series of action role-playing games, as well as assassins appearing in other video games like Dante's Inferno and the Prince of Persia series.

In the first canticle of Dante's Inferno, the lustful are punished by being continuously swept around in a whirlwind, which symbolizes their passions.

In 1989, he collaborated with artist Tom Phillips on a television serial A TV Dante, dramatising the first few cantos of Dante's Inferno.

It was renamed Ulysses, the Latin translation of " Odysseus " at ESA's request in honour not only of Homer's mythological hero but also with reference to Dante's description in Dante's Inferno.

* The vocal sections of the soundtrack of Dante's Inferno are sung in Enochian.

* In the video game adaptation of Dante's Inferno, Phlegyas is represented by a gargantuan molten rock giant.

In the 2010 video game reimagining of Dante's Inferno, an enormous golden statue of Plutus is found in the fourth circle of Hell.

* Dante's Inferno ( video game ), a video game based on the Inferno section of the Divine Comedy

* Clodia makes an appearance in Visceral Games 2010 title Dante's Inferno ( video game ).

* Dante's Inferno ( video game ), 2010 game based on Alighieri's poem.

* Plays during the 2010 Super Bowl XLIV commercial for the video game Dante's Inferno.

Many anime Original Video Animations ( OVAs ) based on popular games have been released such as Dead Space: Downfall, Halo Legends, Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic and numerous films based on the video game series Pokémon.

A digital version of Barlowe's Inferno was included in the Divine Edition of the PlayStation 3 video game Dante's Inferno.

Journals also contains a number of drawings of images which would later become a familiar part of Nirvana lore, such as Dante's Vestibule of Hell ( which appeared on a Nirvana T-shirt ), a skinny man on a cross ( which appeared in the " Heart-Shaped Box " music video ), and male seahorses giving birth ( which appeared on the cover of the " All Apologies "/ " Rape Me " single ).

* Electra is a character in the game Dante's Inferno, in which the player can choose either to punish or absolve her when she is encountered in Limbo.

WildStorm published a number of comics based on creator-owned material and licensed properties such as Astro City, Danger Girl, Red Menace, Ex Machina, Friday the 13th, A God Somewhere, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, World of Warcraft, StarCraft, the Dante's Inferno game and The X-Files.

The third game, Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening, serves as a prequel to the first game and features a cockier, teenage Dante.

The game serves as a sequel to Devil May Cry and is chronologically the fourth and final game in the original Devil May Cry series, with Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening, Devil May Cry, and Devil May Cry 4 all taking place before it.

A fourth trailer, released on December 17, 2007, revealed more gameplay and story detail, as well as information on new songs for the game, including a new version of " Lock and Load ", Dante's theme music from the first Devil May Cry, with new lyrics written and performed by Shawn " Shootie HG " McPherson, the lyricist and lead vocalist on the soundtrack of Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening.

Each of these is subdivided in a manner reminiscent of Dante's Divine Comedy, but the number of divisions and their names differs from one Polynesian culture to another.

In Dante's Paradise ( X. 130 ), he is mentioned among theologians and Doctors of the Church alongside the Scot Richard of St. Victor and the Englishman Bede the Venerable.

According to certain authors, the Jabal Qaf of Muslim cosmology is a version of Rupes Nigra, a mountain whose ascent, like Dante's climbing of the Mountain of Purgatory, represents the pilgrim's progress through spiritual states.

In spite of the metaphysical subject, the Commedia is deeply rooted in the cultural and social milieu of turn-of-the-century Florence: Dante's rise to power ( 1300 ) and exile ( 1302 ), his political passions call for a " violent " use of language, where he uses all the registers, from low and trivial to sublime and philosophical.

Dante's language evolves as he grows old, from the courtly love of his early stilnovistic Rime and Vita nuova to the Convivio and Divina Commedia, where Beatrice is sanctified as the goddess of philosophy – the philosophy announced by the Donna Gentile at the death of Beatrice.

The narrator is met by the writer George MacDonald, whom he hails as his mentor, just as Dante did when encountering Virgil in the Divine Comedy ; and MacDonald becomes the narrator's guide in his journey, just as Virgil became Dante's.

* Dante's Quaestio de Aqua et Terra is published.

The 1997 film Dante's Peak, which was loosely based on the eruption of Mount St. Helens, features a character called Ruth, an elderly woman who lives in a cabin on the mountain and is reluctant to leave, also claiming " the mountain isn't going to hurt me.

" In Dante's Purgatory, the punishment for the envious is to have their eyes sewn shut with wire because they have gained sinful pleasure from seeing others brought low.

Benigni is an improvisatory poet ( poesia estemporanea is a form of art popularly followed and practiced in Tuscany ), appreciated for his explanation and recitations of Dante's Divina Commedia by memory.

The most notable work to touch upon the sin of lust, and all of the Seven Deadly Sins, is Dante's la Divina Commedia.

In Dante's epic The Divine Comedy, Elysium is mentioned as the abode of the blessed in the lower world ; mentioned in connexion with the meeting of Aeneas with the shade of Anchises in the Elysian Fields.

In the Inferno of Dante's Divine Comedy Ephialtes is one of four giants placed in the great pit that separates Dis, or the seventh and eighth circles of Hell, from Cocytus, the Ninth Circle.