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Dante's Influences Through out the course of literature, various authors utilize their own past experiences and histories to enhance the plot of their works. Anything from their childhood to a random person that they meet on the street can create a spark that will create a character or a thought in a piece of literature. Dante's environment was full of people and events that could have influenced his writings. In the Inferno Dante's perception of …

…the Church inspired him in his many works, especially the Inferno. Works Cited Bierhost, John, et al. "The Divine Comedy: Inferno. The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces. New York: W.W. Norton And Company, Inc, 1995. 1703-1829. Mandelbaum, Allen, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross, eds. Inferno: A Canto-by- Canto Commentary. Los Angles: University of California Press, 1998. Peterson, David. Dante's Inferno. English 220 Lecture. Auburn, AL Nov. 1999. Smith, Herbert. The Greatness of Dante Alighieri. Bath: Bath University Press, 1974.