Orpheus1.0001_DanteAlighieri

Ovid Met. 10.1-85
Apollodorus Libr. 1.3.2

Dante Alighieri, 1265 - 1321. (Orpheus among the poets in Limbo in) Inferno 4.140, c. 1307 - 1314? In The Divine Comedy. Poem. Foligno: Neumeister & Angelini, 1472.

In the Inferno, Orpheus is listed among pagan poets who, although they were not evil men, never accepted Christ and thus could not enter Heaven.

Charles S. Singleton, trans. & ed. Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy. Bilingual ed. 3 vols. in 6 (each vol. in 2 parts, Text and Commentary). Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970 - 75 (2d printing with corrections, 1977), vol. 1.

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