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.

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.

" As Kabbalah sees the Torah as the Divine blueprint of Creation, so any entity or idea in Creation receives its existence through an ultimate lifeforce in Torah interpretation.

In the Divine Comedy Dante sees Charles outside the gates of Purgatory " singing in accord " with his former rival Peter.

* In the Divine Comedy, Dante sees Henry (" the king of simple life ") sitting outside the gates of Purgatory with other contemporary European rulers.

In the Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri sees Peter " singing in accord " ( d ' ogni valor portó cinta la corda ) with his former rival, Charles I of Sicily, outside the gates of Purgatory.

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

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

* 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.

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 poem Inferno, Dante Alighieri sees Diomedes in the Eighth Circle of Hell, where deceivers are imprisoned for eternity in a sheet of flame.

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.

Upon this request it is said that Lord Krishna opens his mouth in front of Yashoda who sees the Seven Oceans, the entire Universe with its vast expanse and also Lord Narayana seated upon Adishesha ( The Divine Snake ), attended upon by his beloved consort Mahalakshmi.

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

The Hasidic Masters, who sought to relate the esoteric ideas of Kabbalah to the emotional fervour of the common man, give a new interpretation of particular Divine Providence, that sees every event as spiritually significant.

* In The Divine Comedy, Dante sees Semiramis among the souls of the lustful in the Second Circle of Hell:

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.

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

" Kabbalistic teaching sees kindness as emerging from the first of seven Divine emotional attributes ; to be effective kindness must be balanced and considered, while mercy is also for the undeserving.

Borges sees Lugones in El Payador ( 1916 ) as operating in an explicitly nationalist tradition, seeking a national epic to take the role of Don Quixote or the Divine Comedy and render the Argentines a " people of the book ", in a nationalist reflection of religious identity.

On the throne the prophet sees the Divine Being, having the likeness of a man.

Kaiser's work stands in the tradition of Rudolf Bultmann ; he sees theology as " the study of the human reflection of the experience of the Divine in time and space.

In Divine Comedy, a character called Thaïs is one of just a few women whom Dante Alighieri sees on his journey through Hell ( Inferno, XVIII, 133-136 ).