# Dante — Essays character guide

> Dante in Essays by Henry David Thoreau.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0017-poetry

## Who they are

Italian poet; author of The Divine Comedy.

## In the story

### [Chaucer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/essays_2_se/chapters/chaucer)

Mentioned as a contemporary influence whose name exerted a living presence; Chaucer rendered a similar service to English as Dante did to Italian.

### [Walking](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/essays_2_se/chapters/walking)

Cited as an example of someone exercised in mind more than modern people.

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