| 1 | This is a Dante-like vision of hell. | |
| 2 | Not surprisingly, Nietzsche made several references to Dante' s Inferno during that period. | |
| 3 | I identify with Dante's supreme devotion to his craft, where his religion and art became one. | |
| 4 | In Dante's Inferno, for example, Caesar is in Limbo, a relatively pleasant place in hell reserved for virtuous non-Christians. | |
| 5 | The country fascinated him; he had mastered the language well enough to read Dante, but the circumstances of his journey robbed it of any pleasure. |