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.

* 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.

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

In the Divine Comedy, Dante meets Manfred outside the gates of Purgatory, where the spirit explains that, although he repented of his sins in articulo mortis, he must atone for his contumacy by waiting 30 years for each year he lived as an excommunicate, before being admitted to Purgatory proper.

After a failed reconciliation attempt with Clint, Viki meets and falls in love with Ben Davidson ( Mark Derwin ), who is eventually revealed to be the long-lost son of Asa Buchanan ( Philip Carey ) and Renée Divine Buchanan ( Patricia Elliott ).

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.

According to biographies preserved by Ibn al-Nadim and the Persian polymath al-Biruni, he allegedly received a revelation as a youth from a spirit, whom he would later call his Twin ( Aramaic Tauma ( תאומא ), from which is also derived the name of the apostle Thomas, the " twin "), his Syzygos ( Greek for " partner ", in the Cologne Mani-Codex ), his Double, his Protective Angel or ' Divine Self '.

In the Divine Comedy, Dante sees Philip's spirit outside the gates of Purgatory with a number of other contemporary European rulers.

In the Divine Comedy Dante sees Roland's spirit in the Heaven of Mars together with others who fought for the faith.

In the Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri, a younger contemporary, sees Henry's spirit outside the gates of Purgatory, where he is grouped with a number of other European monarchs of the 13th century.

In The Divine Comedy Dante sees the spirit of Godfrey in the Heaven of Mars with the other " warriors of the faith.

In the Divine Comedy, Dante sees Guiscard's spirit in the Heaven of Mars, along with other " warriors of the faith " who exemplify the cardinal virtue of fortitude.

For Gnostics, every human being is born with a small piece of God's soul lodged within his / her spirit ( akin to the notion of a ' Divine Spark ').

In Dante's Paradise of The Divine Comedy, the spirit of Boethius is pointed out by St. Thomas Aquinas:

In the Divine Comedy, Dante sees his spirit in the Heaven of Mars with the other " heroes of the true faith ".

As may be seen from the descriptions of the various theophanies, the deep monotheistic spirit of the Israelites hesitates to describe the Divine Being, and confines itself generally to describing the influence of the revelation upon those beholding it.

Charles was apparently known personally to Dante: in the Divine Comedy the poet speaks warmly of and to Charles's spirit when they meet in the Heaven of Venus.

Father Divine claimed to his flock that Ritchings was the spirit of his first wife reborn.

Revelation of the Veiled was written in response to the request of one Abu Sa ' eed Al-Hujwiri who put the following questions to him: " Explain to me the true meaning of the Path of Sufism and the nature of the stations ' ( maqamat ) of the Sufis, and explain their doctrines and saying, and make clear to me their mystical allegories, and the nature of Divine Love and how it is manifested in human hearts, and why the intellect is unable to reach the essence thereof, and why the soul recoils from the reality thereof, and why the spirit is lulled in the purity thereof ; and explain the practical aspect of Sufism which are connected with these theories.

Sumarah theology maintains that humankind's soul is like the holy spirit, a spark from the Divine Essence, which means that we are in essence similar to God.

We have taken the inner essence thereof and clothed it in the garment of brevity, as a token of grace unto the righteous, that they may stand faithful unto the Covenant of God, may fulfill in their lives His trust, and in the realm of spirit obtain the gem of Divine virtue.

Explaining that only in the light of Divine Knowledge will it be possible for the spirit to once again become strong by itself and be able to bring about resistance to diseases, especially when the time arrives for all diseases to become as good as incurable.

She is also mentioned by Dante Aligheri in his Divine Comedy ( Inferno: IX 23 ), where Virgil tells of having been compelled by her to descend into the deepest part of hell to bring back a spirit.