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.

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

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.

* Beatrice Portinari, Dante Alighieri's beloved and guide through Heaven in The Divine Comedy ( d. 1290 )

Dante and his guide Virgil proceed then to climb down Satan's back and into Purgatory, though Dante is at first confused at their turning round, but Virgil explains it is due to the change in forces as they pass through the centre of the Earth.

* Virgil ( often spelled Vergil ), Dante the pilgrim's guide in the Inferno and part of the Purgatorio

In Dante's Divine Comedy, in the eighth bolgia of the Inferno, Dante and his guide meet Ulisse among the false counsellors, and receive a variant accounting of his death " from the sea " in a five-month journey beyond the Pillars of Hercules that has ended in a whirlpool drowning as the mariners approach the mountain of Purgatory.

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.

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 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.

Dante, Homer and Virgil in Raphael Sanzio | Raphael's The Parnassus | Parnassus fresco ( 1511 ), in which the Western canon is visualised

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.

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.

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

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.

Dante claims that Randal does nothing for him but make his life miserable by getting him fined, offending his customers, and ruining his relationship.

The black rivers of pitch that flow under those mysterious cyclopean bridges — things built by some elder race extinct and forgotten before the beings came to Yuggoth from the ultimate voids — ought to be enough to make any man a Dante or Poe if he can keep sane long enough to tell what he has seen ...

With no other choice, she set out to face Dante and every obstacle on her way, in order to free this world and make it back alive to her own.

This required fake snow ; Dante also felt it was an atmosphere that would make the special effects more convincing.

Dante credited this work as being one of the factors which helped to make Gremlins a worldwide success.

Dante then came down into the cabin and Bonpensiero realized that he would not make it off the boat alive and requested to not be shot in the face.

Dante and his wife Mary Jane make their home in Rancho Mirage, California.

For this game, Dante is shown to have a habit of flipping a coin to make his decisions, although it is revealed at the end of the game that both sides of the coin are heads.

Twenty-five years later, his grandson Dante and his grandnephew Cross ( Croccifixio ) make their way through life, and the eighty-year-old Don is half retired.

His work, Dante in Love published in 2011, presents a glittering study of the great Italian poet Dante Alighieri, as an artist and philosopher, also depicting an in-depth portrait of medieval Florence in order to make readers understand the literary and cultural background that engendered the Tuscan's masterpiece, The Divine Comedy.

The original Gremlins was a financial success, and Warner Bros. asked its director Joe Dante to make a sequel straight away.

After these ideas fell through, the studio returned to Dante, who agreed to make the sequel after receiving the rare promise of having complete creative control over the movie ; he also received a budget triple that of the original film's.

In the National PAL finals, Spinks won a 4-1 decision against Dante Craig, who went on to make the 2000 US Olympic team.

His respect for the screenwriter extends to the point where, in order to make sure Dante can confer with the writer on-set and provide some minor, additional remuneration, he always casts the writer in a small part of the production itself.

Guinizelli's Canzoni make up the bible of Dolce Stil Novo, and one in particular, " Al cor gentil " (" To a Kind Heart ") is considered the manifesto of the new movement that bloomed in Florence under Cavalcanti, Dante, and their followers.

After the fight, Dante reveals that it was a test to make sure that he could trust Nero with the sword.

Vladimir laughs saying the target is yourself, Dante asks since whenever did he play fair, Vladimir then tells Dante that he killed his mother, Dante says killing him will make it more fun, Vladimir says they both know revenge is a pointless exercise and will not make them better but it will make them feel more empty, he then talks about the pistol saying it used to belong to his grandfather Kirill Markov who made the Markoves the most powerful Mafia clan in the empire and was rumored to be the then tsarina's lover and assassin, he then talks about his farther who made the Markovs the legitimate and noble house he also says that he can't let him marry his daughter.