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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.
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Cerberus, as illustrated by Gustave Doré in Dante's Divine Comedy.
Each of these is subdivided in a manner reminiscent of Dante's Divine Comedy, but the number of divisions and their names differs from one Polynesian culture to another.
Jason is briefly mentioned in Dante's Divine Comedy in the poem Inferno.
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.
Filostrato tells this tale about Dante's benefactor, whom he praises in the Paradiso section of the Divine Comedy, xvii, 68.
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.
* March 25 ( Good friday ) – The date of Dante's journey as the protagonist in his own epic poem, The Divine Comedy.
In Dante's Divine Comedy, the Epicureans are depicted as heretics suffering in the sixth circle of hell.
In Dante's Divine Comedy, the flaming tombs of the Epicureans are located within the sixth circle of hell ( Inferno, Canto X ).
While there have occasionally been a few vocals on the band's other releases, such as the track " Kiew Mission " from 1981's Exit and " The Harbor " from 1987's Shy People, the group only recently returned to featuring vocals in a musical trilogy based on Dante's Divine Comedy and their 2007 album Madcap's Flaming Duty.
Arachne in Gustave Doré's illustration for Dante Alighieri | Dante's Divine Comedy | Purgatorio
He rendered them with the same professional skill that made him famous while reciting Dante's Divine Comedy.
Part II of Dante's Divine Comedy, Purgatorio, has almost certainly been the best known source since the Renaissance.
In Dante's Divine Comedy, the penitents were forced to walk with stone slabs bearing down on their backs to induce feelings of humility.
" As well, to close his speech, Benigni quoted the closing lines of Dante's Divine Comedy, referencing " the love that moves the sun and all the stars.
In Dante's epic The Divine Comedy, Elysium is mentioned as the abode of the blessed in the lower world ; mentioned in connexion with the meeting of Aeneas with the shade of Anchises in the Elysian Fields.
Titans and giants, including Ephialtes on the left, in Gustave Doré's illustrations to Dante's Divine Comedy.
In the Inferno of Dante's Divine Comedy Ephialtes is one of four giants placed in the great pit that separates Dis, or the seventh and eighth circles of Hell, from Cocytus, the Ninth Circle.
Dante's Divine Comedy: Paradiso.
In Inferno, the first cantica of Dante's Divine Comedy, Cocytus is the ninth and lowest circle of Hell.
Besides his poetry in Latin, which include an epic poem, the Thebaid, a collection of occasional poetry, the Silvae, and the unfinished epic, the Achilleid, he is best known for his appearance as a major character in the Purgatory section of Dante's epic poem The Divine Comedy.
In the Inferno, the first part of Italian poet Dante's Divine Comedy epic, Geryon has become the Monster of Fraud, a winged beast with the face of an honest man, the paws of a lion, the body of a wyvern, and a poisonous sting at the tip of his tail.
In art, Myrrha's seduction of her father has been illustrated by German engraver Virgil Solis, her tree-metamorphosis by French engraver Bernard Picart and Italian painter Marcantonio Franceschini, while French engraver Gustave Doré chose to depict Myrrha in Hell as a part of his series of engravings for Dante's Divine Comedy.
Myrrha in Hell ( Gustave Doré, illustration for Dante's Divine Comedy )
In 1857 French engraver Gustave Doré made a series of illustrations to Dante's Divine Comedy, the depiction of Myrrha showing her in the eighth circle of Hell.
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Sandro Botticelli | Botticelli's illustration of Inferno ( Dante ) | Dante's Inferno shows insincere flatterers grovelling in excrement in the second pit of the eighth circle.
Malbolge is a public domain esoteric programming language invented by Ben Olmstead in 1998, named after the eighth circle of hell in Dante's Inferno, the Malebolge.
Malebolgia ( also referred to at times as the Malebolgia ) is a fictional character in the Spawn universe, drawing its name from the term in Dante's Inferno used to describe Malebolge, the ditches ( bolge ) in the eighth circle of Hell where humans who committed the sin Fraud are punished.
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He appears in Dante's Divine Comedy ( Inferno, canto xx. 115-117 ) in the fourth bolgia located in the Eighth Circle of Hell that's reserved for sorcerers, astrologers, and false prophets who claimed they can see the future when they could not.
Dante's and Inferno
* " Vanni Fucci Is Alive and Well and Living In Hell ", a 1988 short story lampooning televangelists included in Prayers to Broken Stones, is about a brief return to earth by the title character, an inhabitant of Dante's Inferno
* The Hollow Man ( 1992 ) is influenced by Dante's Inferno and T. S. Eliot
In Canto X Circle 6 (" Where the heretics lie ") of Dante's Inferno, Epicurus and his followers are criticized for supporting a materialistic ideal when they are mentioned to have been condemned to the Circle of Heresy.
* In the Dante's Inferno video game, Limbo is portrayed as a chaotic landscape watched over by Minos and inhabited by unbaptized infants with sickles for hands.
34 Alessandro Vellutello, Lucifero ( 1534 ). jpg | Lucifer, by Alessandro Vellutello ( 1534 ), for Dante's Inferno, canto 34
File: Blake Hell 34 Lucifer. jpg | Lucifer, by William Blake, for Dante's Inferno, canto 34
* The 2010 EA video game Dante's Inferno as a boss alongside a giant Cleopatra in the second circle of hell ( lust ), his last words to Cleopatra are " you said we'd be together for eternity " before disappearing.
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 story is in four segments, inspired by Dante's Inferno: the Anteinferno, the Circle of Manias, the Circle of Shit, and the Circle of Blood.
His treachery is considered so notorious that his name has long been synonymous with traitor, a fate he shares with Benedict Arnold, Marcus Junius Brutus ( who too is depicted in Dante's Inferno, suffering the same fate as Judas along with Cassius Longinus ), and Vidkun Quisling.
Dante's influence is everywhere seen in the Decameron, from its subtitle ( a reference to Inferno, v ) to its physical arrangement and careful attention to medieval numerology.
* Great Demon King Zenon, a three-headed ( reminiscent of Satan in Dante's Inferno ) leader of the demons in the manga and anime Devilman.
* In Dante's Inferno, Brutus is one of three people deemed sinful enough to be chewed in one of the three mouths of Satan, in the very center of Hell, for all eternity.
* The City of Ravenna is mentioned in Canto V in Dante's Inferno.
Others attribute the name to Dante's Inferno, XXI, XXII and XXIII ; one of the devils in Hell having the name Alichino.
Examples include Independence Day, Daylight, Earthquake, 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, Poseidon, The Towering Inferno, Dante's Peak, Deep Impact, Volcano, The Core, Armageddon and Twister.
In Dante's Inferno, unforgiven souls of the sin of lust are blown about in restless hurricane-like winds symbolic of their own lack of self control to their lustful passions in earthly life.
An earlier video game series based on the Assassins is the Exile series of action role-playing games, as well as assassins appearing in other video games like Dante's Inferno and the Prince of Persia series.
In the first canticle of Dante's Inferno, the lustful are punished by being continuously swept around in a whirlwind, which symbolizes their passions.
In 1989, he collaborated with artist Tom Phillips on a television serial A TV Dante, dramatising the first few cantos of Dante's Inferno.
It was renamed Ulysses, the Latin translation of " Odysseus " at ESA's request in honour not only of Homer's mythological hero but also with reference to Dante's description in Dante's Inferno.
* The vocal sections of the soundtrack of Dante's Inferno are sung in Enochian.
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