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.

In The Divine Comedy Dante sees John XXI ( referred to as " Pietro Spano ") in the Heaven of the Sun with the other spirits of great religious scholars.

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.

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.

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

* In The Divine Comedy the spirit of Solomon appears to Dante Alighieri in the Heaven of the Sun with other exemplars of inspired wisdom.

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.

For discouragement, or the temptation to abandon our efforts, `` would show that one placed excessive trust in purely human means without thinking of the omnipotence of God, the irresistible efficacy of prayer, the action of Christ or the power of the Divine Spirit ''.

An Italian nun named Sister Benedetta Carlini was documented to have seduced many of her sisters when possessed by a Divine spirit named " Splenditello "; to end her relationships with other women, she was placed in solitary confinement for the last 40 years of her life.

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.

Nor was there among them formerly any image or statue of the Divine Being ; during the first one hundred and seventy years they built temples, indeed, and other sacred domes, but placed in them no figure of any kind ; persuaded that it is impious to represent things Divine by what is perishable, and that we can have no conception of God but by the understanding ".

Although, as shown above, Philo repeatedly endeavored to find the Divine Being active and acting in the world, in agreement with Stoicism, yet his Platonic repugnance to matter predominated, and consequently whenever he posited that the divine could not have any contact with evil, he defined evil as matter, with the result that he placed God outside of the world.

Two members of the Pazzi family are placed in hell in Dante's Inferno, both in the circle of the traitors ; The Divine Comedys reference has nothing to do with the Pazzi Conspiracy, since it was written nearly 200 years earlier.

: From the earliest ages of the Catholic Church a Christian people, whether in time of triumph or more especially in time of crisis, has addressed prayers of petition and hymns of praise and veneration to the Queen of Heaven and never has that hope wavered which they placed in the Mother of the Divine King, Jesus Christ ; nor has that faith ever failed by which we are taught that Mary, the Virgin Mother of God, reigns with a mother's solicitude over the entire world, just as she is crowned in heavenly blessedness with the glory of a Queen.

Under the pseudonym Philalethes he translated to German the Dante's Divine Comedy ; some parts of this work were placed in the Schloss Weesenstein.

In discussing the differences in recruiting tactics employed by these groups, they placed the Divine Light Mission in the middle ground between movements in which recruits were love bombed, or overwhelmed by waves of intense sentiment, and those in which affective bonds were discouraged.

During a hierarchical Divine Liturgy, the dikirion and trikirion are kept respectively on the northeast and southeast corners of the Holy Table ( altar ) or on stands placed next to these corners.

The Lamb ( liturgy ) | Lamb and particles placed on the diskos during the Liturgy of Preparation for the Divine Liturgy

The Divine Mercy image is often carried in processions on Divine Mercy Sunday, and is placed in a location in the church so that it can be venerated by those who attended the Mass.

the Lamb and particles as they are placed on the diskos ( paten ) during the Divine Liturgy.

The particles placed on the diskos during the Divine Liturgy.

The Lamb ( Liturgy ) | Lamb and particles placed on the diskos during the Divine Liturgy.

Pope John Paul II instituted Divine Mercy Sunday ( Dominica II Paschae seu de divina misericordia ) and placed it on the General Roman Calendar.

The Divine Mercy image is often carried in processions on Divine Mercy Sunday, and is placed in a location in the church so that it can be venerated by those who attended the Mass.

During the Divine Liturgy it is not only the Lamb ( Host ) that is placed on the diskos, but also particles to commemorate the Theotokos, the Saints, the living and the departed.

An Italian nun named Sister Benedetta Carlini was documented to have seduced many of her sisters when possessed by a Divine spirit named " Splenditello "; to end her relationships with other women, she was placed in solitary confinement for the last 40 years of her life.