Dante's Inferno | List of Characters
Note: The Canto in which the characters first appear is listed after their names.
Dante (Canto I)—The writer, narrator, main character, and traveler in The Inferno.
Virgil (Canto I)—Ancient Roman poet who appears to Dante and becomes his guide.
Aeneas (Canto II)—A character from Virgil’s Aeneid; “author of young Silvius’ birth.”
Alessio Interminei (Canto XVIII)—A White Guelph; a flatterer with “slick” manners.
Alexandro degli...
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