* 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.

Lucretia appears to Dante in the section of Limbo reserved to the nobles of Rome and other " virtuous pagans " in Canto IV of the Inferno.

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.

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

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.

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.

Myrrha appears in the Divine Comedy poem Inferno by Dante Alighieri, where Dante sees her soul being punished in the eighth circle of Hell, in the tenth bolgia ( ditch ).

Lord Xenon appears as a shadowy figure that appears very similar to Demon Lord Dante.

Calhoun plays Dante as an infomercial huckster that appears to be both a tribute to and a parody of Keehan's original persona.

* Mephisto appears in Ghost Rider's ending in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, where Dante and Trish force him to undo his demonic pact with Johnny Blaze.

He also appears in Dante's ending, where he tries to coax Dante into forming a pact with him, only for the Devil Hunter to turn it around, forcing Mephisto to send him after Blackheart instead.

It also appears in the background of Water Willow, a portrait of his wife, Jane Morris, painted by Dante Gabriel Rossetti in 1871.

Zamprogna appears in ABC's daytime soap-opera General Hospital as Dante Falconeri.

Frederiksen appears in several episodes of Tim Armstrong's Tim Timebomb's Rock n Roll Theater as Dante.

Suddenly, Gloria appears before Dante as Nero leaves, and reveals that she is actually Dante's partner, Trish.

The chief cast of the Italian film play bit parts or cameos in the US film – Letícia Román is a flower-seller in the underground scene, and actor Dante DiPaolo appears as Dr. Hims.

After the fall of Vladimir and Dimitri's return, she appears to accept her Father's offer of rejoining him by capturing Dante-later revealed to be a ruse to get Dante to the heart of the Imperial Palace.

* Aruns appears in Dante Alighieri's Inferno ( of the Divine Comedy ).

Farinata degli Uberti ( 1212 – November 11, 1264 ), real name Manente degli Uberti, was an Italian aristocrat and military leader, considered by some to be a heretic, who appears in Dante Alighieri's Inferno and is mentioned in C. S.

* In Divine Comedy ( Inferno, Canto XX ), Dante sees Tiresias in the fourth pit of the eighth circle of Hell ( the circle is for perpetrators of fraud and the fourth pit being the location for astrologers, sorcerers, soothsayers, diviners, and false prophets who claim to see the future when they couldn't ) He was condemned to walk for eternity with his head twisted toward his back ; while in life he strove to look forward to the future, in Hell he must only look backward.

A number of characters in these stories claim to have learned ' dimac ' ( presumably a corruption of Dim Mak, the " Touch of Death " advertised by Keehan ) from a manual written by Dante.

It is sometimes reported that Arnaut de Mareuil surpassed his more famous contemporary Arnaut Daniel him in elegant simplicity of form and delicacy of sentiment ; however, this is based on the personal opinion of an editor of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, and against the consensus of both past and modern scholars: Dante, Petrarch, Pound and Eliot, who were familiar with both authors consistently proclaim Daniel's supremacy, and even Arnaut de Mareuil's curator, Simon Gaunt, writing 25 years later, makes no mention of such claim.

In the Renaissance, the Silvae thanks to Poliziano helped inspire an entire genre of collections of miscellaneous, occasional poetry called Sylvae which remained popular throughout the period, inspiring works by Hugo Grotius and John Dryden, Dante mentions Statius in De vulgari eloquentia along with Ovid, Virgil and Lucan as one of the four regulati poetae ( ii, vi, 7 ).

In Divina Commedia, Dante and Virgil are caught up with Statius as they leave the Fifth Terrace ( reserved for the avaricious and the prodigal ) and enter the Sixth ( reserved for the gluttonous ).

Statius ' redemption is heard in Canto XX ( the mountain trembles and the penitent souls cry out " Gloria in exclesis Deo ") and he joins Dante and Virgil in Canto XXI.

A 2012 study dedicated to Dante's Statius's relation to Christianity has shown the significance of the fact that Dante does not state that Statius ever converted to Christianity, but that his Neapolitan predecessor let himself be " baptized " by Christians.

He is one of the two pagans presented by Dante as saved souls encountered in Purgatorio, the other being Statius ( Cantos XX-XXII ).

The title " teacher " was first given to Aristotle by Muslim scholars, and was later used by Western philosophers ( as in the famous poem of Dante ) who were influenced by the tradition of Islamic philosophy.

DiFranco was born in Buffalo, New York, to Elizabeth and Dante DiFranco, who had met while attending MIT.

Popular outfielder Dante Bichette was traded to the Cincinnati Reds.

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 ).

Don's father was named Ugo Dante Rosa, but used the name " Hugo Don " Rosa in America.

It is believed Boccaccio was tutored by Giovanni Mazzuoli and received from him an early introduction to the works of Dante.

The high seriousness of the subject was also epitomized in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's painting ( illustrated ), in which a woman modelled by Jane Morris holds the Grail with one hand, while adopting a gesture of blessing with the other.

What would come to be thought of as Italian was first formalized in the early fourteenth century through the works of Tuscan writer Dante Alighieri, written in his native Florentine.

Whereas Dante Gabriel Rossetti, in his own commentary compares the Minotaur with all three sins of violence within the seventh circle: " The Minotaur, who is situated at the rim of the tripartite circle, fed, according to the poem was biting himself ( violence against oneself ) and was conceived in the ' false cow ' ( violence against nature, daughter of God ).

The various uses of ḥuzn and hüzün thus describe melancholy from a certain vantage point, show similarities with female hysteria in the case of Avicenna's patient and in a religious context it is not unlike sloth, which by Dante was defined as " failure to love God with all one's heart, all one's mind and all one's soul ".

The Italian medieval poet Dante was the first to have recorded the term lingua d ' oc.

Dante was a friend of his father.

Petrarch confessed to Boccaccio that he had never read the Commedia, remarks Contini, wondering whether this was true or Petrarch wanted to distance himself from Dante.

The free commune, the place that had made Dante an eminent politician and scholar, was being dismantled: the signoria was taking its place.

In a clear disagreement with Dante, in 1346 Petrach argued in his De vita solitaria that Pope Celestine V's refusal of the papacy in 1294 was as a virtuous example of solitary life.

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.

* In his Inferno, Dante portrayed Boniface VIII as destined for hell, where simony is punished, although Boniface was still alive at the fictional date of the poem's story.

Petrarch was moved to defend Celestine vigorously against the accusation of cowardice and some modern scholars ( e. g., Mark Musa ) have suggested Dante may have meant someone else ( Esau, Diocletian and Pontius Pilate have been variously suggested ).

The modern Italian of Risorgimento patriots like Alessandro Manzoni was based on the Tuscan dialects sanctified by Dante and Petrarch.

Other Italian poets of the time, including Dante Alighieri ( 1265 – 1321 ) and Guido Cavalcanti ( c. 1250 – 1300 ) wrote sonnets, but the most famous early sonneteer was Petrarca ( known in English as Petrarch ).

The ferryman Charon is believed to have transported the souls of the newly dead across this river into the underworld, though in the original Greek and Roman sources, as well as in Dante, it was the river Acheron that Charon plied.