Vico .. Joyce, Beckett makes a striking comparison between Dante ’ s version of Purgatory and Joyce ’ s: “ Dante's is conical and consequently implies culmination.

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.

Dante Alighieri | Dante and Beatrice Portinari | Beatrice see God as a point of light surrounded by angels.

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.

Also known as a Savonarola or Dante chair in Italy, or a Luther chair in Germany, the X-chair was a light and practical form that spread through Renaissance Europe.

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 attribued these arts to the planets.

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

Dante concludes ( Paradiso XXVI ) that Hebrew is a derivative of the language of Adam.

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

Dante stubbornly refused to take the scene out, saying it represented the film as a whole, which had a combination of horrific and comedic elements.

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.

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 ).

** Divina Commedia ( The Divine Comedy ) by Dante Alighieri ( Italian )

His early works were, however, greatly admired by the young Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who asked him to become his tutor.

Some students of the work argue for an Italian origin, noting phrases in Barnabas which are very similar to phrases used by Dante and suggesting that the author of Barnabas borrowed from Dante's works ; they take the Spanish version's preface to support this conclusion.

* The Life of Dante, translated by Vincenzo Zin Bollettino.

Most classical Italian poems are composed of hendecasyllables ; for example, the major works by Dante, Francesco Petrarca, Ludovico Ariosto, and Torquato Tasso.

The Damsel of the Sanct Grael by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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.

* Racconto dall ' inferno ( 2004 ) ( text by Dante Alighieri ) for female jazz voice, small orchestra ( 8 winds, 6 brass, guitar, cimbalom, 2 pianos, 2 percussion, minimum 8 strings, bass guitar ).

Film opera in five parts ( texts by Dante and Vondel and from the Old Testament )

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.

Minos, illustration by Gustave Doré for Dante Alighieri's Inferno ( Dante ) | Inferno.