Vernon Lushington Thomas Hughes, and Richard Buckley Litchfield, became a unifying force at the College. He was a friend to artists, authors and activists, particularly those of The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the Arts and Crafts Movement who gravitated to the Working Men's College. In 1856, it was he who first introduced Edward Burne-Jones to Dante Gabriel Rossetti in his college rooms. Rossetti used Lushington’s wife, Jane, as a model in 1865. Lushington, friend of William Morris, was a frequent visitor to Kelmscott Manor. He was a close friend of Leslie Stephen and his family; Stephen’s daughter Virginia (later Woolf) based her character
The Mystery of Dante The Mystery of Dante The Mystery of Dante () is a 2014 Italian independent film written and directed by Louis Nero that explores "The Divine Comedy" though a documentary-style look at the life and philosophy of Dante Alighieri. The film was shot in the basement of the Macello's Castle and in Turin. The film includes cultural references from Shakespeare, the Sufis (all of Ibn Arabi), and including Luigi Valli, Gabriele Rossetti, René Guénon, Miguel Asín Palacios, and also religious origins of literature, reaching from Muslim, Jewish, and Indian traditions back to the Epic of Gilgamesh. Inspired by the work of