Ingres's choice of subjects reflected his literary tastes, which were severely limited: he read and reread Homer, Virgil, Plutarch, Dante, histories, and the lives of the artists.

" Patchen kept a diary from the age of twelve and read Dante, Homer, Burns, Shakespeare and Melville.

His mastery of verse has been compared to that of Shakespeare, Vondel, Homer, Virgil and Dante.

The gargoyles on the top level depict Yale's students at war and in study ( a pen-wielding writer, a proficient athlete, a tea-drinking socialite, and a diligent scholar ), along with masks of Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Shakespeare.

The ancient Greek poet Homer introduced Ulysses ( Odysseus in Greek ), and many later poets took up the character, including Euripides, Horace, Dante, William Shakespeare, and Alexander Pope.

These include Moses, Louis Pasteur, Dante Alighieri, Shakespeare, Plato, Benjamin Franklin, Justinian I, Isaac Newton, Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo Galilei, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Herodotus, Adam Smith, Homer, Johann Gutenberg, Ludwig van Beethoven, Charles Darwin and Hugo Grotius.

Walcott draws on Homer, Virgil, and also Dante ( the form of the poem is reminiscent of the Dante-invented terza rima ).

Shakespeare, but also Homer, Job, Aeschylus, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Lucretius, Juvenal, St. John, St. Paul, Tacitus, Dante, Rabelais, and Cervantes.

Sieber described the library of the monastery as rich in more than a thousand texts, including religious texts and those of Pindar, Petrarch, Virgil, Dante, Homer, Strabon, Thucydides and Diodore of Sicily.

Differing tendencies soon asserted themselves, following the ideas of the two founders: that of Gravina stood in the tradition of Homer and Dante, while that of Crescimbeni was more influenced by Petrarch.

Nonetheless, epics have been written down at least since the works of Virgil, Dante Alighieri, and John Milton.

Dante followed Virgil in depicting the same three-charactered triptych of Erinyes ; in Canto IX of the Inferno they confront the poets at the gates of the city of Dis.

Rapidity or ease of movement, plainness of expression, and plainness of thought are not distinguishing qualities of the great epic poets Virgil, Dante, and Milton.

Like the French epics, such as the Chanson de Roland, Homeric poetry is indigenous and, by the ease of movement and its resultant simplicity, distinguishable from the works of Dante, Milton and Virgil.

In it, he is seen by Dante and his guide Virgil being punished in Hell's Eighth Circle ( Bolgia 1 ) by being driven to march through the circle for all eternity while being whipped by devils.

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 and Virgil, his guide, encounter the beast first among those damned for their violent natures, the " men of blood ".

The Minotaur is also the first infernal guardian whom Virgil and Dante come across within the walls of Dis ( the fallen angels, Erinyes, and the unseen Medusa were located on the city's defensive ramparts in Canto IX ).

After the taunting, Virgil and Dante pass quickly by to the centaurs, ( Nessus, Chiron, Pholus, and Nessus ) who guard the Flegetonte, " river of blood ", to continue through the seventh Circle.

At Cumae, the Sibyl leads Aeneas on an archetypal descent to the underworld, where the shade of his dead father serves as a guide ; this book of the Aeneid directly influenced Dante, who has Virgil act as his narrator's guide.

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.

Virgil's work has had wide and deep influence on Western literature, most notably the Divine Comedy of Dante, in which Virgil appears as Dante's guide through hell and purgatory.

Italian poet Dante Alighieri was himself profoundly influenced by the Aeneid, so much so that his magnum opus The Divine Comedy, itself widely considered a part of the western canon, was written in a style similar to the Aeneid and featured the author Virgil as a major character-the guide of Dante through the realms of the Inferno and Purgatorio.

His favorite poets were Virgil and Dante.

He appears not only in Dante, but also in Chaucer and to a large degree in Petrarch, who adopted his style in his own essays and who quotes him more than any other authority except Virgil.

He lowers Dante and Virgil into the Circle of Treachery.

Phlegias with Dante Alighieri | Dante and Virgil, stained glass in Museo Poldi Pezzoli in Milan.

In the Divine Comedy poem Inferno, Phlegyas ferries Virgil and Dante across the river Styx, which is portrayed as a marsh where the wrathful and sullen lie.

Dante and Virgil are placed there by the giant Antaeus, there are other Giants around the rim chained, however Antaeus is unchained as he died before the Gigantomachy.

He has also appeared with the Nash Ensemble, the Raphael Ensemble, Ensemble 360 ° and the Lindsay, Dante and Endellion Quartets at the Wigmore Hall, London.

Count Juan Raphael Dante ( born John Timothy Keehan in Chicago, Illinois, 2 February 1939, died 25 May 1975 ) was a controversial American martial artist figure during the 1960s and 1970s who claimed he could do extraordinary feats such as Dim mak.

In 1967, Keehan legally changed his name to Count Juan Raphael Danté, explaining the name change by stating that his parents fled Spain during the Spanish Civil War, changed their names, and obscured their noble heritage in order to effectively hide in America ( the surname Dante being in fact of Italian origin ).

Walter and Anne had three children ; their first child was a girl, with Raphael born next followed by his younger brother Dante.

Image: Dante ( Malcolm X Park ). jpg | Dante, Washington, D. C .' s Meridian Hill Park

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

Minos, illustration by Gustave Doré for Dante Alighieri's Inferno ( Dante ) | Inferno.

Dante Alighieri | Dante and Beatrice Portinari | Beatrice see God as a point of light surrounded by angels.

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.

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

Dante speaks to Pope Nicholas III, committed to the Hell | Inferno for his simony, in Gustave Doré's wood engraving, 1861.

Charon ( mythology ) | Charon coming to ferry souls to Inferno ( Dante ) | Hell, in Canto 10 of The Divine Comedy.

A Pre-Raphaelite Proserpine ( Rossetti painting ) | Proserpine ( 1873 – 77 ) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti ( Tate Gallery, London )

Arachne in Gustave Doré's illustration for Dante Alighieri | Dante's Divine Comedy | Purgatorio

File: Joan of Arc by Rossetti. jpg | Joan of Arc kissing the " Sword of Liberation ;" painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1863