As a result, " Lucifer has become a by-word for Satan in the Church and in popular literature ", as in Dante Alighieri's Inferno and John Milton's Paradise Lost.

Dante ( 1265-1321 ) has a few minor references to dance in his works but a more substantive description of the round dance with song from Bologna comes from Giovanni del Virgilio ( floruit 1319-1327 ).

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

The established form, as developed by Petrarch and Dante, has every line of eleven syllables.

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.

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.

Benigni has reportedly received offers to bring his Dante show to Broadway, all of which he has turned down.

His treatise De tyranno (" On the tyrant ") published in 1400, has, most likely, its model in Visconti, although in it Salutati ( despite being a republican ) remains a supporter of the providential universal monarch already put forward by Dante.

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

This speech has been given a wider applicability in relation to the theme of voyages of discovery, also found in the Ulysses of Dante and Tennyson.

Historiae Adversus Paganos has been quoted by all types of author from Saint Braulio of Zaragoza to Dante Alighieri.

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.

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.

Dante has been assigned the ZIP code 57329 and the FIPS place code 15420.

# Avarice ( covetousness, greed ) — a desire to possess more than one has need or use for ( or according to Dante, " excessive love of money and power ").

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.

Ursula Le Guin has stated that the idea of the Dry Land came from the " Greco-Roman idea of Hades ' realm, from certain images in Dante Alighieri's work, and from one of Rainer Maria Rilke's Elegies.

Reopening the store, Dante finds out one of his ex-girlfriends has died and her memorial service is today.

The problem of squaring the circle has been mentioned by poets such as Dante and Alexander Pope.

It has been proposed that Morax is related to the Minotaur which Dante places in Hell ( Inferno, Canto xii ).

Stuttgart has the second version of Iphigenia ; Karlsruhe, the Dante at Ravenna ; Munich, the Medea ; and Berlin, The Concert, his last important picture.

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 ...

* Also, in Devil May Cry, the main character Dante has a weapon called a needle gun.

Encyclopædia Britannica asserts that " his influence on the modern Greek language and culture has been compared to that of Dante on Italian and Martin Luther on German ".

His younger sister Cunizza is also cited by Dante, in Paradise, IX, 31-33.

* sovramagnificentissimamente ( cited by Dante Alighieri in De vulgari eloquentia ), 27 letters, " in a way that is more than magnificent by far " ( archaic );

He accepted the position of capitano del popolo (" Captain of the People ") and gained for Forlì notable victories: against the Bolognesi at the Ponte di San Proculo, on June 15, 1275 ; against a Guelph allied force, including Florentine troops, at Civitella on November 14, 1276 ; and at Forlì itself against a powerful French contingent sent by Pope Martin IV, on May 15, 1282, in a battle cited by Dante Alighieri ( who was hosted in the city in 1303 by Scarpetta Ordelaffi III ).

In the 13th century the city was destroyed after the battle of Pieve al Toppo, cited by Dante Alighieri and fought nearby between Arezzo and Siena.

In his Divine Comedy, Dante places Albertus with his pupil Thomas Aquinas among the great lovers of wisdom ( Spiriti Sapienti ) in the Heaven of the Sun.

In the Divine Comedy, Dante meets the spirit of Justinian in the Heaven of Mercury, among the other blessed souls whose earthly ambitions were imperfectly aligned with the Divine Will.

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 ".

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.

A persistent tradition identifies Celestine V as the nameless figure Dante Alighieri sees among those in the antechamber of Hell, in the enigmatic verses:

* In Dante Alighieri's Inferno, Antaeus is shown among the giants half-frozen up to their torsos at the edge of the Circle of Treachery.

Merezhkovsky was known for his poetry as well as a series of novels on god-men, among whom he counted Christ, Joan of Arc, Dante, Leonardo da Vinci, Napoleon, and ( later ) Hitler.

* In The Divine Comedy, Dante sees Semiramis among the souls of the lustful in the Second Circle of Hell:

Dante was among the supporters of the White Guelphs, and in 1302 was exiled when the Black Guelphs took control of Florence.

The last movement of " Ulysses ", which is among the most familiar passages in nineteenth-century English-language poetry, presents decisive evidence of the influence of Dante.

The artists Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Ford Madox Brown were among O ' Shaughnessy's circle of friends, and in 1873 he married Eleanor Marston, the daughter of author John Westland Marston and sister of the poet Philip Bourke Marston.

He is among the first Romance vernacular poets of the Middle Ages, one of the founders of a tradition that would culminate in Dante, Petrarch, and François Villon.

Dante also speaks with the souls of contemporary Italian statesmen Currado Malaspina and Nino Visconti, the latter being a personal friend whom Dante rejoices at not having found among the damned.

We cannot here do more than enumerate the leading troubadours and briefly indicate in what conditions their poetry was developed and through what circumstances it fell into decay and finally disappeared: Peire d ' Alvernha, who in certain respects must be classed with Marcabru ; Arnaut Daniel, remarkable for his complicated versification, the inventor of the sestina, a poetic form for which Dante and Petrarch express an admiration difficult for us to understand ; Arnaut de Mareuil, who, while less famous than Arnaut Daniel, certainly surpasses him in elegant simplicity of form and delicacy of sentiment ; Bertran de Born, now the most generally known of all the troubadours on account of the part he is said to have played both by his sword and his sirveniescs in the struggle between Henry II of England and his rebel sons, though the importance of his part in the events of the time seems to have been greatly exaggerated ; Peire Vidal of Toulouse, a poet of varied inspiration who grew rich with gifts bestowed on him by the greatest nobles of his time ; Guiraut de Borneil, lo macsire dels trobadors, and at any rate master in the art of the so-called close style ( trebar clus ), though he has also left us some songs of charming simplicity ; Gaucelm Faidit, from whom we have a touching lament ( plaint ) on the death of Richard Cœur de Lion ; Folquet of Marseille, the most powerful thinker among the poets of the south, who from being a merchant and troubadour became an abbot, and finally bishop of Toulouse ( d. 1231 ).

Dante and Virgil interview Brunetto among the sodomites, from Guido da Pisa's commentary on the Commedia, c. 1345

The church, among others, houses the tombs of Pietro Alighieri, son of Dante, and Francesca Petrarca, daughter of the poet Francesco.

In chapters ten to fifteen of the first book, Dante writes about his search for the illustrious vernacular, among the fourteen varieties he claims to have found in the Italian region.

Petrarch's work has similar qualities ; yet neither Petrarch nor Dante could be classified among the pure ascetics of their time.

While there he met and made friends ( as he did very readily ) with many artistic and literary people, among them Dante Gabriel Rossetti, George du Maurier ( who was a fellow contributor to Punch ), John Everett Millais and Frederic Leighton.

She was among the ten finalists, but on 1 August 2007, she and Dante were the first two finalists eliminated.

Merezhkovsky was known for his poetry as well as a series of novels on god-men, among whom he counted Christ, Joan of Arc, Dante, Leonardo da Vinci, Napoleon, and ( later ) Hitler.

The Battle of Campaldino secured the Guelphs in Florence, though internecine fighting among the Whites and Blacks among the Florentine Guelphs resulted in civic disturbances and the exile of many, including Dante ( a member of the Whites, the faction more opposed to papal power ).