* Dante Before the City of Florence by Domenico di Michelino ( 1465 ).

* World of Dante Multimedia website that features Domenico di Michelino's painting with interactive features.

Dante ( detail ), Domenico di Michelino, Florence 1465

He gave a series of lectures on Dante at the Santo Stefano church in 1373 and these resulted in his final major work, the detailed Esposizioni sopra la Commedia di Dante.

* Esposizioni sopra la Comedia di Dante ( 1373 – 1374 )

* Trattatello in laude di Dante ( 1357, title revised to De origine vita studiis et moribus viri clarissimi Dantis Aligerii florentini poetae illustris et de operibus compositis ab eodem )

The most usual stress schemes for the Italian hendecasyllable are stresses on sixth and tenth syllables ( for example, " Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita ," Dante Alighieri, first line of The Divine Comedy ), and on the fourth, seventh and tenth syllables (" Un incalzar di cavalli accorrenti ," Ugo Foscolo, Dei sepolcri ).

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.

Dante Alighieri, detail from a Luca Signorelli fresco in the chapel of Orvieto Cathedral # Chapel of the Madonna di San Brizio | San Brizio, Duomo, Orvieto.

He also hoped to become a historical novelist or a dramatist, and in the same year he wrote his first essay, Dell ' amor patrio di Dante (" On Dante's Patriotic Love "), which was published in 1837.

He published Quattro Novelle in 1829 ; Storia d ’ Italia sotto i Barbari in 1830 ; Vita di Dante, 1839 ; Meditazioni Storiche, 1842 — 1845 ; Le Speranze d ’ Italia, 1844 ; Pensieri sulla Storia d ’ Italia, 1858 ; Della Monarchia rappresentativa in Italia ( Florence, 1857 ).

Margherita encouraged artists and writers and founded cultural institutions, notably the Società del Quartetto, and the Casa di Dante.

The University of Naples flourished under the patronage of the king dismissed by Dante as a re di sermone, " king of words ", attracting students from all parts of Italy.

In his Divine Comedy, the poet Dante Alighieri wrote: " Ahi, Costantin, di quanto mal fu matre, / non la tua conversion, ma quella dote / che da te prese il primo ricco patre!

The Basilica di Santa Croce in Florence, Italy, contains a number of cenotaphs including one for Dante Alighieri, who is buried in Ravenna.

Other popular parodies by Carpi include Guerra e Pace ( 1986, based upon War and peace by Leo Tolstoy ), Paperino e il vento del Sud ( 1982, Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell ), Paperino e il giro del mondo in otto giorni ( 1962, Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne ), Paperin Caramba y Carmen Olè ( 1979, Carmen by Georges Bizet ), Paolino Pocatesta e la bella Franceschina ( 1980, Inferno by Dante Alighieri ), Topolino corriere dello Zar ( 1966, Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne ), La metamorfosi di un papero ( 1991, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka ).

Giacopo Mazzoni Della difesa della Comedia di Dante Ferrara.

* Giudizio degli antichi poeti sopra la moderna censura di Dante ( 1755 ), a defence of the great poet against the attacks of Bettinelli.

* B. Sanvisenti, I Primi Influssi di Dante, del Petrarca e del Boccaccio suite letteratura spagnuola ( Milan, 1902 ), pp. 127 – 186.

Incunable in the library include: Cristoforo Landino's Commentario sopra la Comedia di Dante, 1481 ; S. Brant Stultifera Navis 1488 ; Boethius's De Philosophico Consolatu, 1501.

However, when Giovanni Boccaccio ( 1313-1375 ) was commissioned by the city of Florence to write Commento di Dante which he completed c. 1374 ( before the birth of Poggio Bracciolini ), he made clear use of the Annals when he gave an account of Seneca's death directly based on the Tacitus account in Annals book 15.

This painting of Dante Alighieri, painted by Giotto di Bondone | Giotto, is in the chapel of the Bargello palace in Florence.

The area is also renowned for excellent private schools such as Maria Imaculada school for girls ; the Anglican Saint Paul's school ; Dante Alighieri private school, Alumni English Language Institute, São Luis University and School, Casa di Cultura Italiana, and Objetivo Preparatory School.

In his Divine Comedy, Dante places Albertus with his pupil Thomas Aquinas among the great lovers of wisdom ( Spiriti Sapienti ) in the Heaven of the Sun.

Dante Alighieri, in the Divine Comedy, recounts that he saw Alfonso's spirit seated outside the gates of Purgatory with the other monarchs whom Dante blamed for the chaotic political state of Europe during the 13th century.

Dante was a great poet, the Societa Dantesca Italiana did great work in editing and publishing a usable and affordable text, but the Divine Comedy was certainly used by the newly unified Italian government ( see History of Italy ) to encourage a more homogeneous, Tuscan-influenced dialect for the whole peninsula ( see Italian language ).

In contrast, Dante decided to write his epic, the Divine Comedy in Italian — a choice that defied the traditional epic choice of Latin dactylic hexameters — and produced a masterpiece beloved both then and now.

** Divina Commedia ( The Divine Comedy ) by Dante Alighieri ( Italian )

* World of Dante Multimedia website that offers Italian text of Divine Comedy, Allen Mandelbaum's translation, gallery, interactive maps, timeline, musical recordings, and searchable database for students and teachers.

* In Dante Alighieri's Inferno ( which is part of the Divine Comedy series ), Hector and his family are placed in Limbo, the outer circle wherein the virtuous non-Christians dwell.

Dante Alighieri | Dante and Beatrice Portinari | Beatrice gaze upon the highest heavens ; from Gustave Doré's illustrations to the Divine Comedy.

The two most famous descriptions of Heaven are given in Dante Alighieri's Pardiso ( of the Divine Comedy ) and John Milton's Paradise Lost.

* In the Divine Comedy Joshua's spirit appears to Dante in the Heaven of Mars, where he is grouped with the other " warriors of the faith.

In the Divine Comedy, Dante meets the spirit of Justinian in the Heaven of Mercury, among the other blessed souls whose earthly ambitions were imperfectly aligned with the Divine Will.

* In the Divine Comedy poem Inferno, Dante depicts Limbo as the first circle of Hell, located beyond the river Acheron but before the judgment seat of Minos.

* Inferno ( Dante ), the first of the three canticas of Divine Comedy

In the Divine Comedy, Dante meets Adrian's spirit in Purgatory, on the level reserved for the avaricious, where Adrian atones for his sin of worldly ambition.

In The Divine Comedy Dante sees John XXI ( referred to as " Pietro Spano ") in the Heaven of the Sun with the other spirits of great religious scholars.

In the Divine Comedy, Dante sees Martin IV in Purgatory, where the reader is reminded of the former pontiff's fondness for Lake Bolsena eels and Vernaccia wine.

Dante settled his score with Boniface in Part One of the Divine Comedy, the Inferno, by damning the pope even before his death in 1303 ( the poet set the time of the poem as being in the year 1300 ) in the pit of those whose sin was simony.

Satan as depicted in Cocytus | the Ninth Circle of Hell in Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy | Inferno, illustrated by Gustave Doré.

* In The Divine Comedy the spirit of Solomon appears to Dante Alighieri in the Heaven of the Sun with other exemplars of inspired wisdom.

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.