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.

* 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.

The two most famous descriptions of Heaven are given in Dante Alighieri's Pardiso ( of the Divine Comedy ) and John Milton's Paradise Lost.

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.

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

Satan as depicted in Cocytus | the Ninth Circle of Hell in Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy | Inferno, illustrated by Gustave Doré.

* June 8 – Beatrice Portinari, object of Dante Alighieri's adoration ( b. 1266 )

* Beatrice Portinari, Dante Alighieri's beloved and guide through Heaven in The Divine Comedy ( d. 1290 )

Other types of tercet include an enclosed tercet where the lines rhyme in an a b a pattern and terza rima where the a b a pattern of a verse is continued in the next verse by making the outer lines of the next stanza rhyme with the central line of the preceding stanza, b c b, as in the terza rima or terzina form of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.

* 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.

* In Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy poem Inferno, Electra is seen in Limbo.

* Typhon was referenced in Dante Alighieri's Inferno.

In Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy poem Inferno, Sinon is seen in the Tenth Bolgia of Hell's Circle of Fraud where along with other Falsifiers of words, he is condemned to suffer a burning fever for all eternity.

Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, considered the greatest epic of Italian literature, derived many features of and episodes about the hereafter directly or indirectly from Arabic works on Islamic eschatology: the Hadith and the Kitab al-Miraj ( translated into Latin in 1264 or shortly before as Liber Scale Machometi, " The Book of Muhammad's Ladder ") concerning Muhammad's ascension to Heaven, and the spiritual writings of Ibn Arabi.

* Dante Alighieri's Inferno Metaphor, a 2010 book by Anthony Cristiano

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.

An example of this belief can be found in Dante Alighieri's Inferno ( XX, 126 ) where the expression " Cain and the twigs " is used as a kenning for " moon ".

Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy makes a passing reference to geomancy.

The topography of Baator is broadly derived from the Hell described in Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy, although the arrangement and names of the layers of Baator differ greatly from the circles of Hell described by Dante.

In the 1860s, Lowell's friend Longfellow spent several years translating Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and regularly invited others to help him on Wednesday evenings.

This is not to say that no religious works were published in this period: Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy reflects a distinctly medieval world view.

Dante Alighieri's Purgatorio includes a dream of Rachel and Leah, which inspired illustrations by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and others:

In his Inferno, Canto XXI, Dante places barrators in the Eighth Circle, fifth bolgia of Hell.

Dante followed Virgil in depicting the same three-charactered triptych of Erinyes ; in Canto IX of the Inferno they confront the poets at the gates of the city of Dis.

Guido Brignone ’ s Maciste all ’ Inferno ( 1926 ), the first film he saw, would mark him in ways linked to Dante and the cinema throughout his entire career.

* In the Divine Comedy poem Inferno, Dante depicts Limbo as the first circle of Hell, located beyond the river Acheron but before the judgment seat of Minos.

* Inferno ( Dante ), the first of the three canticas of Divine Comedy

Lucretia appears to Dante in the section of Limbo reserved to the nobles of Rome and other " virtuous pagans " in Canto IV of the Inferno.

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

Dante settled his score with Boniface in Part One of the Divine Comedy, the Inferno, by damning the pope even before his death in 1303 ( the poet set the time of the poem as being in the year 1300 ) in the pit of those whose sin was simony.

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.

Dante speaks to Pope Nicholas III, committed to the Hell | Inferno for his simony, in Gustave Doré's wood engraving, 1861.

This tale also includes another Dante reference, this time to Inferno, xvi, 66.

Charon ( mythology ) | Charon coming to ferry souls to Inferno ( Dante ) | Hell, in Canto 10 of The Divine Comedy.

Italian poet Dante Alighieri was himself profoundly influenced by the Aeneid, so much so that his magnum opus The Divine Comedy, itself widely considered a part of the western canon, was written in a style similar to the Aeneid and featured the author Virgil as a major character-the guide of Dante through the realms of the Inferno and Purgatorio.

As a result Dante reserved a place in the ninth circle of Hell for the traitor Bocca degli Abati in his Divine Comedy:

Dante placed Ugolino and Ruggieri in the ice of the second ring ( Antenora ) of the lowest circle of the Inferno, which is reserved for betrayers of kin, country, guests, and benefactors.

Dante places Brutus and Cassius in the lowest circle of Hell because they had chosen to betray their friend Julius Caesar rather than their country Rome.

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.

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 ).

Dante put Phlegyas over the Styx and made it the fifth circle of Hell, where the wrathful and sullen are punished by being drowned in the muddy waters for eternity, with the wrathful fighting each other.

* In The Divine Comedy, Dante sees the shade of Potiphar's wife in the eighth circle of Hell.

* In Divine Comedy ( Inferno, Canto XX ), Dante sees Tiresias in the fourth pit of the eighth circle of Hell ( the circle is for perpetrators of fraud and the fourth pit being the location for astrologers, sorcerers, soothsayers, diviners, and false prophets who claim to see the future when they couldn't ) He was condemned to walk for eternity with his head twisted toward his back ; while in life he strove to look forward to the future, in Hell he must only look backward.

In the fourteenth canto of his Inferno, Dante sees Capaneus in the seventh circle ( third round ) of Hell.

Myrrha appears in the Divine Comedy poem Inferno by Dante Alighieri, where Dante sees her soul being punished in the eighth circle of Hell, in the tenth bolgia ( ditch ).

In The Divine Comedy Dante sees the shade of Dido in the second circle of Hell, where she is condemned ( on account of her consuming lust ) to be blasted for eternity in a fierce whirlwind.

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

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.

In The Divine Comedy Dante places the usurers in the inner ring of the seventh circle of hell.

In context, the epigraph refers to a meeting between Dante and Guido da Montefeltro, who was condemned to the eighth circle of Hell for providing counsel to Pope Boniface VIII, who wished to use Guido's advice for a nefarious undertaking.

Dante places Caiaphas in the 6th realm of the 8th circle of Inferno, where hypocrites are punished in the afterlife: his punishment is to be eternally crucified across the hypocrites ' path, who eternally step on him.

I think that is a circle of hell Dante omitted.

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.

As a result, Dante Alighieri portrayed him in the Inferno as a sower of schism, punished in the eighth circle of Hell ( Canto XXVIII ), carrying his severed head like a lantern.

In Dante Alighieri's Inferno, part of the Divine Comedy, Malebolge is the eighth circle of Hell.

In Dante ’ s version of hell, categories of sin are punished in different circles, with the depth of the circle ( and placement within that circle ) symbolic of the amount of punishment to be inflicted.