Charon the ferryman rowing to collect Dante and Virgil, to carry them across the Styx, 1861. Artist: Gustave Doré
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Charon the ferryman rowing to collect Dante and his guide, Virgil, to carry them across the Styx, 1861. Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) was a great admirer of Virgil, and in his Divina Commedia (Divine Comedy), Virgil accompanies Dante through Purgatory and Inferno. From Inferno, first part of Divina Commedia (Divine Comedy), Canto III.
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Creator
- Gustave Doré, attributed to: French: Artist, printmaker, painter, sculptor
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- Virgil: Roman: Poet, author
- Dante Alighieri: Italian: Author, poet, prose writer, literary theorist, moral philosopher, political thinker
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- Dante Alighieri: Italian: Author, poet, prose writer, literary theorist, moral philosopher, political thinker
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