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 )

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

Dante and his guide, Virgil, make their way into Malebolge by riding on the back of the monster Geryon, the personification of fraud, who possesses the face of an honest man ' good of cheer ,' but the tail of a scorpion, who flies them down through the yawning chasm that separates the eighth circle from the seventh circle, where the violent are punished.

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.

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.

In the game, Phlegyas ferries Dante across the River Styx atop his head, then begins indiscriminately attacking the damned and Dante alike atop the crumbling outer walls along the shore.

He then ascends Mount Purgatory with them and stays with Dante in the Earthly Paradise at the mountain's summit, after Virgil has returned to Limbo.

" Dante then realizes that he loves Veronica.

He then says that Dante came to work of his own volition and overcompensates for having a monkey's job.

Dante Santiago then introduced will. i. am to Fergie, who joined the band in 2002.

Apart from the chronological difficulties this hypothesis presents, it should be noted that Catholic criticism of Catholic clergy, including the pope, was common ; by then, such criticism had had a long and even reputable tradition that can be seen in the works of famous Catholic writers such as Chaucer, Dante and Erasmus.

He posits, alternatively, that the role of Guido in the analogy is indeed filled by Prufrock, but that the role of Dante is filled by you, the reader, as in " Let us go then, you and I ," ( 1 ).

Iorga had by then finished several new theatrical plays: Moartea lui Dante (" The Death of Dante "), Molière se răzbună (" Molière Gets His Revenge "), Omul care ni trebuie (" The Man We Need ") and Sărmală, amicul poporului (" Sărmală, Friend of the People ").

Dante admitted to reporters later that " the idea of taking a 4-year-old to see Gremlins, thinking it's going to be a cuddly, funny animal movie and then seeing that it turns into a horror picture, I think people were upset ...

Directly after, twice, he gets hit with the door by both Dante and Randal and then again by Becky where it is revealed that Becky is pregnant and Dante has told Randal.

However, Christopher's loyalty to the business proved stronger, and he told Tony about Adriana, who was then murdered by Silvio Dante.

Tony Soprano then deceived Adriana by convincing her that Moltisanti had attempted suicide and that he was sending Silvio Dante to transport her to the hospital, only for her to be driven into the woods and executed.

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.

Shortly after the halfway point in the game, player control switches to Dante, until he rescues Nero, who the player then uses for the game's final showdown.

In 1879 Pike published " Translations from Dante, Petrarch, Michael Angelo and Vittoria Colonna " Pike then went on to be the first person to translate Dante's Inferno into English in 1881

The drama was then once more forgotten, until in 1863 it was read and praised by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Both then proceeded to Italy, and were present at the Dante festivities at Florence, which in Potgieter's case resulted in a poem in twenty stanzas, Florence ( Haarlem, 1868 ).

Dante then invited Sayles to rewrite the script for werewolf tale The Howling, loosely based on the novel by Gary Brandner.

Croc then goes on a quest to free all the Gobbos and defeat the evil Baron Dante himself.