FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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Odysseus
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Virgil and Odysseus
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Beatrice, Virgil, Odysseus
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Beatrice, Virgil
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Detailed explanation-1: -Virgil, without mentioning her name, explains that Beatrice will give Dante the tour of Heaven if he wishes. Virgil explains that he is not worthy to give such a tour as he is a resident of Hell. In real life, Beatrice is Dante’s great love who died too soon.
Detailed explanation-2: -Beatrice is Dante’s muse and inspiration for writing the Divine Comedy. Thanks to Giovanni Boccaccio, the author of the Decameron and a biography on Dante, we know that Beatrice’s real identity is Bice di Folco Portinari. She married a prominent Florentine banker and died when she was only 24 years old.
Detailed explanation-3: -Divine Comedy Beatrice personally appears near the end of the Purgatorio to take over as guide from the Latin poet Virgil because, as a pagan, Virgil cannot enter Paradise.