* CL 0402 – Dante Alighieri – Paradiso canto XXXIII.

* Rahab is depicted as a virtuous soul ( in The Third Circle of Heaven ) in The Divine Comedy of Dante ( Paradiso 9. 112 ff.

Dante ( 1265 – 1321 ), in his Paradiso, describes the ascent of his narrator through the spheres of the Moon, the planets from Mercury to Saturn, and thence to the sphere of the fixed stars and the heavens of the angels.

* Dante, Paradiso, canto 15, line 127

Dante, in the Paradiso ( x. 134-6 ), says that he found " death slow in coming ," and some have concluded that this indicates death by suicide.

Dante Alighieri | Dante and Beatrice Portinari | Beatrice gaze upon the highest Heaven ; from Gustave Doré's illustrations to the Divine Comedy, Paradiso Canto 28, lines 16 – 39

Near the beginning of the fourteenth century Dante, in the Paradiso of his Divine Comedy, described God as a light at the center of the cosmos.

Dante refers to the episode in both the Inferno and Paradiso Canto XVII of his Divine Comedy.

* Paradiso ( Dante ), the third part of Dante's Divine Comedy

Dante mentioned him in his Comedy ( Paradiso, Canto XII, verses 121-126 ), as supporter of stricter Franciscan rules.

Central to this aspect is a fragment from Dante, non fosse cive, taken from a passage in Paradiso, Canto VIII, in which Dante is asked " would it be worse for man on earth if he were not a citizen?

In his Divine Comedy, Dante placed Ripheus in Paradisio, in the sixth sphere of Jupiter ( Paradiso Canto XX: 1 – 72 ), the realm of those who personified justice ( Cantos 18 through 20 ).

* Paradiso ( Dante )

He is a drugged Dante in reverse, descending from the Paradiso to the Inferno.

** Paradiso, for Speaker and String Quartet ( based on Dante ), first performed in Basel in 2002

The entire poem seems like an uproarious inversion of cantos xi and xii of Dante's Paradiso: just as Dante has the Dominican Aquinas and the Franciscan Bonaventure lauding one another's orders, so the Crede-poet makes the mendicants exchange abuse.

* Dante Alighieri has Odysseus append a new ending to the Odyssey in canto XXVI of the Inferno.

* CL 0437 – Dante Alighieri – Inferno canto XXVI.

In Inferno XXVI Dante Alighieri mentions Ulysses in the pit of the Fraudulent Counsellors and his voyage past the Pillars of Hercules.

In particular, the chief Hebrew name for God in scholastic tradition, El, must be derived of a different Adamic name for God, which Dante gives as I.

General understanding of the dimensions of the universe derived from the nested sphere model reached wider audiences through the presentations in Hebrew by Moses Maimonides, in French by Gossuin of Metz, and in Italian by Dante Alighieri.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti imagined her as a snake in Eden Bower and the similarity of her name with the Hebrew layil or night produced the Middle Age idea of her as a creature of the night.

) are often more important than the semantics of words. His translations include poetry, Chinese, Japanese, Greek and Hebrew texts. He translated, big names of world literature, as Goethe ( German ), Ezra Pound, James Joyce ( English ), Mayakovsky ( Russian ), Mallarmé ( French ), Dante ( Italian ) and Octavio Paz ( Spanish ).

Dante in the Divina commedia implies however that the language of Paradise was different from later Hebrew by saying that Adam addressed God as I rather than El.

Albertus is frequently mentioned by Dante, who made his doctrine of free will the basis of his ethical system.

Found within Consolation are themes that have echoed throughout the Western canon: the female figure of wisdom that informs Dante, the ascent through the layered universe that is shared with Milton, the reconciliation of opposing forces that find their way into Chaucer in The Knight's Tale, and the Wheel of Fortune so popular throughout the Middle Ages.

In Dante Alighieri's Inferno, Canto VI, the " great worm " Cerberus is found in the Third Circle of Hell, where he oversees and rends to pieces those who have succumbed to gluttony, one of the seven deadly sins.

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

* 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.

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.

Dante is still credited with standardizing the Italian language, and thus the dialect of Florence became the basis for what would become the official language of Italy.

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.

* 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.

) frequently attempt to kill the protagonist Dante after he is pulled into Limbo when caught in the sight of one of the city's demonic cameras.

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 ).

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 ".

Petrarch's is a world apart from Dante and his Divina Commedia.

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.

Today, he is probably best remembered for his feuds with Dante, who placed him in the Eighth Circle of Hell in his Divina Commedia, among the simonists.

In the Inferno, Pope Nicholas III, who can see the future, mistakenly assumes that Dante is Boniface come before his time.

* 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.

Boniface's eventual destiny is revealed to Dante by Pope Nicholas III, whom he meets.

Boniface's ultimate fate is confirmed by Beatrice when Dante visits Heaven.

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.

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.

In Dante Alighieri's Inferno, the ninth and lowest circle of Hell is reserved for traitors ; Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus, suffers the worst torments of all: being constantly gnawed at by one of Lucifer's own three mouths.

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