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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.
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Dante's epic poems, known collectively as the Commedia, to which another Tuscan poet Giovanni Boccaccio later affixed the title Divina, were read throughout Italy and his written dialect became the " canonical standard " that all educated Italians could understand.
* March 25 ( Good friday ) – The date of Dante's journey as the protagonist in his own epic poem, The Divine Comedy.
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.
From a starting point that combines Homer's Odyssey and Dante's Divine Comedy to create a personal epic of 20th century life, the poem uses materials from history, politics, literature, art, music, economics, philosophy, mythology, ecology and the poet's personal experiences and ranges across European, American, African and Asian cultures.
The poem received its canonization during a series of lectures by Leopoldo Lugones in 1913 ( published as El payador in 1916 ), where the great Argentine poet crowned the Martín Fierro the epic of Argentina, comparable to Dante's Divine Comedy for Italy or Cervantes's Don Quixote for Spain.
Dante's Inferno is the first part of Dante Alighieri's epic poem Divine Comedy.
Fathers and Sons might be regarded as the first wholly modern novel in Russian Literature ( Gogol's Dead Souls, another main contender, is sometimes referred to as a poem or epic in prose as in the style of Dante's Divine Comedy ).
" The title is an Italian good luck wish, literally translating as " in the mouth of the wolf " and therefore a likely nod to the language and subject matter of Dante's epic poem, which Turla was reading during the writing of the album.
The film uses a conventional story of greed and dishonesty to project an image of the Inferno conjured up in Dante's 14th century epic poem.
Clocking in at 16 minutes and 26 seconds, " Dante's Inferno " is based on the Inferno-segment of Dante Alighieri's epic poem, the Divine Comedy.
However, he eventually based only Gianni Schicchi on Dante's epic poem.
It is based on the story of Francesca da Rimini in the fifth canto of Dante's epic poem The Inferno ( the first part of The Divine Comedy ).
Symphony No. 1, The Divine Comedy, was inspired by Dante's epic ; Symphony No. 2, The Odyssey, was inspired by the Greek epic of the same name ; and Symphony No. 3, " Don Quixote ", was inspired by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's epic of the same title.
Beside Dante's epic, Wang also translated Kalidasa's famous play Sakuntala into Chinese ( again indirectly from French, but it is said that he spent some time to learn Sanskrit from a Buddhist monk in order to produce a better translation ).
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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.
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.
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.
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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* " 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 Dante's Paradise ( X. 130 ), he is mentioned among theologians and Doctors of the Church alongside the Scot Richard of St. Victor and the Englishman Bede the Venerable.
* 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.
According to certain authors, the Jabal Qaf of Muslim cosmology is a version of Rupes Nigra, a mountain whose ascent, like Dante's climbing of the Mountain of Purgatory, represents the pilgrim's progress through spiritual states.
In spite of the metaphysical subject, the Commedia is deeply rooted in the cultural and social milieu of turn-of-the-century Florence: Dante's rise to power ( 1300 ) and exile ( 1302 ), his political passions call for a " violent " use of language, where he uses all the registers, from low and trivial to sublime and philosophical.
Dante's language evolves as he grows old, from the courtly love of his early stilnovistic Rime and Vita nuova to the Convivio and Divina Commedia, where Beatrice is sanctified as the goddess of philosophy – the philosophy announced by the Donna Gentile at the death of Beatrice.
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.
* Dante's Quaestio de Aqua et Terra is published.
* 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.
The 1997 film Dante's Peak, which was loosely based on the eruption of Mount St. Helens, features a character called Ruth, an elderly woman who lives in a cabin on the mountain and is reluctant to leave, also claiming " the mountain isn't going to hurt me.
" In Dante's Purgatory, the punishment for the envious is to have their eyes sewn shut with wire because they have gained sinful pleasure from seeing others brought low.
Benigni is an improvisatory poet ( poesia estemporanea is a form of art popularly followed and practiced in Tuscany ), appreciated for his explanation and recitations of Dante's Divina Commedia by memory.
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.
The most notable work to touch upon the sin of lust, and all of the Seven Deadly Sins, is Dante's la Divina Commedia.
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