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.

Dante Alighieri, in the Divine Comedy, recounts that he saw Alfonso's spirit seated outside the gates of Purgatory with the other monarchs whom Dante blamed for the chaotic political state of Europe during the 13th century.

Cerberus, as illustrated by Gustave Doré in Dante's Divine Comedy.

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 ).

In contrast, Dante decided to write his epic, the Divine Comedy in Italian — a choice that defied the traditional epic choice of Latin dactylic hexameters — and produced a masterpiece beloved both then and now.

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

* World of Dante Multimedia website that offers Italian text of Divine Comedy, Allen Mandelbaum's translation, gallery, interactive maps, timeline, musical recordings, and searchable database for students and teachers.

Dante Domenico di Michelino's Divine Comedy in Duomo of Florence.

The theme tune for the series was written and performed by The Divine Comedy, and was later reworked into " Songs of Love ", a track from the album Casanova.

* 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.

Dante Alighieri | Dante and Beatrice Portinari | Beatrice gaze upon the highest heavens ; from Gustave Doré's illustrations to the 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.

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

The most usual stress schemes for the Italian hendecasyllable are stresses on sixth and tenth syllables ( for example, " Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita ," Dante Alighieri, first line of The Divine Comedy ), and on the fourth, seventh and tenth syllables (" Un incalzar di cavalli accorrenti ," Ugo Foscolo, Dei sepolcri ).

The purists thought the Divine Comedy not dignified enough, because it used elements from non-lyric registers of the language.

Jason is briefly mentioned in Dante's Divine Comedy in the poem Inferno.

* 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.

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.

* Knight, G. W. " Coleridge's Divine Comedy " in English Romantic Poets.

* 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

* 1970 – Neil Hannon, Northern Irish musician ( The Divine Comedy )

A Gustave Doré | Doré illustration to the Divine Comedy, Paradiso, Canto 28.

In the Divine Comedy, Dante meets Adrian's spirit in Purgatory, on the level reserved for the avaricious, where Adrian atones for his sin of worldly ambition.

When the Divine Council meets, God informs ha-Satan about Job's blameless, morally upright character.

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.

The novel Overburdened with Evil ( 1988 ) by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky involves a character in modern setting who turns out to be Ahasuerus, identified at the same time in a subplot with John the Divine.

A character actor who often performed female roles in both cinema and theater, Divine also adopted a female drag persona in his musical performances, leading People magazine to describe him as the " Drag Queen of the Century ".

Waters liked to give his friends new nicknames, and it was he who first began calling Milstead ' Divine ', later remarking that he had borrowed the name from a character in Jean Genet's novel Our Lady of the Flowers ( 1943 ), a controversial book about homosexuals living on the margins of Parisian society, which Waters – who was himself a homosexual – was reading at the time.

The final scene in the film would prove particularly infamous, involving the character of Babs eating fresh dog feces ; as Divine would later tell a reporter, " I followed that dog around for three hours just zooming in on its asshole ," waiting for it to empty its bowels so that they could film the scene.

Waters later claimed that the character of Dawn had been partly based on the mutual friend who had introduced him to Divine, Carol Wernig, while the costumes and make-up were once more designed by Van Smith to create the desired " trashy, slutty look.

The script was written with Divine in mind, and although not being a major character in the film, Divine had been eager to play the part, because he wished to perform in more male roles and leave behind the stereotype of simply being a female impersonator.

The first of these, Edna Turnblad, was the loving mother of Tracy, although Divine would later note that with this character he could not be accurately described as a drag queen, proclaiming " What drag queen would allow herself to look like this?

According to Divine's manager, Bernard Jay, this was " not because Divine happened to be a gay person himself … but because it was the gay community that openly and proudly identified with the determination of the female character Divine ".

Do you mean the character Divine or the person Divine?

There's the Divine you're talking to now and there's the character Divine, which is just something I do to make a living.

KOF 2003 begins a new storyline focusing on another new lead character named Ash Crimson, a young man who seeks to possess the powers of the Three Divine Vessels for his own unknown agenda.

His Divine Shadow ( also known simply as His Shadow ) is a fictional character in the TV series Lexx.

Divine motivation theory is similar to virtue ethics because is considers the character of an agent, and whether they are in accordance with God's, as the standard for moral value.

Her images of Hell are believed by some scholars to have influenced Dante Alighieri when he wrote The Divine Comedy, and Mechthild is thought to have been represented by Dante in that work, in the character of Matelda.

Dreuxilla Divine ( born January 12, 1974, in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico ) is a Puerto Rican drag queen character on television.

In Dante's The Divine Comedy, Arnaut Daniel appears as a character doing penance in Purgatory for lust.

: Within a compass of two hundred pages it proclaims unequivocally the existence and oneness of a personal God, unknowable, inaccessible, the source of all Revelation, eternal, omniscient, omnipresent and almighty ; asserts the relativity of religious truth and the continuity of Divine Revelation ; affirms the unity of the Prophets, the universality of their Message, the identity of their fundamental teachings, the sanctity of their scriptures, and the twofold character of their stations ; denounces the blindness and perversity of the divines and doctors of every age ; cites and elucidates the allegorical passages of the New Testament, the abstruse verses of the Qur ' án, and the cryptic Muhammadan traditions which have bred those age-long misunderstandings, doubts and animosities that have sundered and kept apart the followers of the world's leading religious systems ; enumerates the essential prerequisites for the attainment by every true seeker of the object of his quest ; demonstrates the validity, the sublimity and significance of the Báb's Revelation ; acclaims the heroism and detachment of His disciples ; foreshadows, and prophesies the world-wide triumph of the Revelation promised to the people of the Bayán ; upholds the purity and innocence of the Virgin Mary ; glorifies the Imams of the Faith of Muhammad ; celebrates the martyrdom, and lauds the spiritual sovereignty, of the Imam Husayn ; unfolds the meaning of such symbolic terms as " Return ," " Resurrection ," " Seal of the Prophets " and " Day of Judgment "; adumbrates and distinguishes between the three stages of Divine Revelation ; and expatiates, in glowing terms, upon the glories and wonders of the " City of God ," renewed, at fixed intervals, by the dispensation of Providence, for the guidance, the benefit and salvation of all mankind.

Phoenix provided the setting for many scenes in Baltimore native John Waters ' 1972 cult classic film Pink Flamingos ; the film's chief character, Divine, lived there in a trailer, which was deliberately burned down approximately two-thirds of the way into the movie.