section_path: Legacy and reception/Middle Ages/Dante's Divine Comedy
section_name: Dante's Divine Comedy
paragraph_text: Dante's Divine Comedy
  
  Dante presents Virgil as his guide through Hell and the greater part of Purgatory in the Divine Comedy. Dante also mentions Virgil in De vulgari eloquentia, as one of the four regulati poetae along with Ovid, Lucan and Statius (ii, vi, 7).