- For other uses, see Dante.
Dante Alighieri (c. 1265 - 13th or 14 September 1321) was an Earth poet from Florence, Italy who lived during the 13th and 14th centuries. His most notable work is the Divine Comedy, widely considered the central epic poem of Italian literature and seen as one of the greatest works of Earth literature.
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After being infused with catoms by the Caeliar scientist Inyx, former NX-02 Captain Erika Hernandez reflected that a petrified tree and her current existence reminded her of the portion of the Divine Comedy titled Inferno where traitors were not sent to fire and brimstone, but the Ninth Level of Hell and sealed into Cocytus where all thought and feelings died. (ST - Destiny novel: Mere Mortals)
In May 1974, Roberta Lincoln spotted an Italian language edition of Dante's Divine Comedy in the Project Chrysalis playroom. (TOS - The Eugenics Wars novel: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 1)
In 2045, Easter thought of Dante when thinking that numbing death by cold was a worse hell. (TOS novel: Strangers from the Sky)
In April 2160, The Forge on Vulcan reminded Charles Tucker III of Dante. (ENT - The Romulan War novel: To Brave the Storm)
In 2268, Pavel Chekov was reminded of Dante's Inferno when entering a Patrian nightclub. (TOS novel: The Patrian Transgression)
Mark Johnson introduced Kathryn Janeway to Dante's works. (VOY novel: The Eternal Tide)
Janeway once told Jean-Luc Picard that Dante knew traveling through hell would lead to one's salvation. (VOY - Strange New Worlds VIII short story: "Alpha & Omega")
In 2374, Janeway read Dante's La Vita Nuova. (VOY novel: The Eternal Tide)
When the neurogenic radiation bombs detonated on Trill in 2376 of the First Splinter timeline, Julian Bashir compared the scene in Manev Central Hospital to the version of Hell depicted by Dante. (DS9 - Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novel: Trill: Unjoined)
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| Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Characters | Achilles • Dante Alighieri • Antaeus • Attila the Hun • Beatrice • Bertran de Born • Marcus Junius Brutus • Centaurs • Cerberus • Charon • Cleopatra • Euclid • Eurydice • Furies • Geryon • Ugolino della Gherardesca • Harpies • Judas Iscariot • Jason • Lucifer • Medusa • Minotaur • Minos • Orpheus • Phlegyas • Plato • Socrates • Ulysses • Ruggieri degli Ubaldini • Virgil | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Locations | Abominable Sands • Dis • Garden of Eden • Heaven • Limbo • Neutral Zone • Nine Circles of Hell • Purgatory • River of Acheron • River of Cocytus • River of Philegethon • River Styx • underworld • Wood of the Suicides | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
External links[]
- Dante Alighieri article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- Dante Alighieri article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.