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  2. Inferno (Dante) - Wikipedia

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    Explanatory PDF is available for download; See more Dante's Inferno images by selecting the "Heaven & Hell" subject at the Persuasive Cartography, The PJ Mode Collection, Cornell University Library "Mapping Dante's Inferno, One Circle of Hell at a Time", article by Anika Burgess, Atlas Obscura, July 13, 2017; Dante's Inferno on In Our Time at ...

  3. Second circle of hell - Wikipedia

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    The circle of lust introduces Dante's depiction of King Minos, the judge of hell; this portrayal derives from the role of Minos in the Greek underworld in the works of Virgil and Homer. Dante also depicts a number of historical and mythological figures within the second circle, although chief among these are Francesca da Rimini and Paolo ...

  4. First circle of hell - Wikipedia

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    Inferno is the first section of Dante Alighieri's three-part poem Commedia, often known as the Divine Comedy.Written in the early 14th century, the work's three sections depict Dante being guided through the Christian concepts of hell (Inferno), purgatory (), and heaven (). [2]

  5. Third circle of hell - Wikipedia

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    Cerberus in the third circle of hell, as depicted by William Blake. The presence of Cerberus in the third circle of hell is another instance of an ancient Greek mythological figure adapted and intensified by Dante; as with Charon and Minos in previous cantos, Cerberus is a figure associated with the Greek underworld in the works of Virgil and Ovid who has been repurposed for its appearance in ...

  6. Malebranche (Divine Comedy) - Wikipedia

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    Within the Inferno, the demons provide some moments of satirical black comedy. There are twelve Malebranche named in the poem: Dante (blue) and Virgil (red) in three scenes with the Malebranche, portrayed by Giovanni di Paolo. Alichino (derived from Arlecchino, the harlequin [2]) Barbariccia ("Curly Beard" [2]) Cagnazzo ("Nasty Dog" [3] [2])

  7. The Barque of Dante - Wikipedia

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    The Barque of Dante (French: La Barque de Dante), also Dante and Virgil in Hell (Dante et Virgile aux enfers), is the first major painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, and is a work signalling the shift in the character of narrative painting, from Neo-Classicism towards Romanticism. [1]

  8. Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta Appraised by Dante ...

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    In the first volume, Inferno, of The Divine Comedy, Dante and Virgil meet Francesca and her lover Paolo in the second circle of hell, reserved for the lustful. Da Rimini's father had forced her to marry the lame Giovanni Malatesta for political reasons, but she fell in love with Giovanni's brother Paolo.

  9. Erichtho - Wikipedia

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    Erichtho is also mentioned by name in the first book of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, Inferno: in Canto IX, Dante and Virgil are initially denied access to the gates of Dis, and so Dante, doubting his guide and hoping for confirmation, asks Virgil if he has ever travelled to the depths of Hell before.