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Dante Portrait of Dante with Beatrice and Virgil Gustave Doré: Dante and Virgil beset by demons on their passage through the eighth circle of Hell Gustave Doré: Dante, guided by Virgil, observes those guilty of simony in the eighth circle of Hell Inferno William-Adolphe Bouguereau: Dante and Virgil Domenico di Michelino: Dante Reading from the Divine Comedy
Why has Dante's Inferno been important to Irish writers and artists?
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Domenico di Michelino: Dante Reading from the Divine Comedy
Dante (Alighieri) summary
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Row of colorful books on a bookshelf. Stack of books, pile of books, literature, reading. Homepage 2010, arts and entertainment, history and society
The Literary World
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Italian poet. The author of Divina Commedia (Divine Comedy), the great Italian epic poem which tells the story of Dante's journey through hell, purgatory and heaven, the three realms of the dead.
Name That Author
Edgar Allan Poe 1848. Photo of daguerreotype by W.S. Hartshorn 1848; copyright 1904 by C.T. Tatman. Edgar Allan Poe, American poet, short story writer, editor and critic. Edgar Allen Poe
Who Wrote It?
Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry
4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul
Famous Poets and Poetic Form
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Why has Dante's Inferno been important to Irish writers and artists?
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Dante
Italian poet Dante Alighieri, oil on panel by an unknown artist, c. 1550; in the...
Yale University Art Gallery, University purchase from James Jackson Jarves (1871.85)
Portrait of Dante with Beatrice and Virgil
Portrait of Dante Alighieri wearing a laurel wreath and holding a book. Beatrice...
Courtesy of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Gustave Doré: Dante and Virgil beset by demons on their passage through the eighth circle of Hell
Dante and Virgil beset by demons on their passage through the eighth circle of Hell...
© Photos.com/Getty Images
Gustave Doré: Dante, guided by Virgil, observes those guilty of simony in the eighth circle of Hell
Dante (standing right), guided by Virgil, watches those guilty of simony suffer burning...
From Dante's Inferno, from the original of Dante Alighieri, translated by Rev. Henry Francis Carey, 1886
Inferno
Engraving from Dante's Inferno by Gustave Doré, 1861.
Courtesy of the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
William-Adolphe Bouguereau: Dante and Virgil
Dante and Virgil (also called Dante and Virgil in Hell), oil on...
© Universal History Archive—Universal Images Group/Getty Images
Domenico di Michelino: Dante Reading from the Divine Comedy
Dante Reading from the Divine Comedy, painting by Domenico di Michelino,...
© Alfred Dagli Orti—REX/Shutterstock.com
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