Dante is a constant presence in Imperial’s poetry, most significantly in the "Dezir a las syete virtudes", but elsewhere as well (poems 226 and 232, "Cancionero de Baena", J. González Cuenca-B. Dutton (eds.), Visor, Madrid, 1993). One of Imperial’s poems (nº 226) features Dante as a principal character, and in large part consists of the imagined words of the Florentine poet. And when Imperial challenges the idea that Fortune is an extension of divine Providence, he explicitly mentions that he is disagreeing with Dante’s conception of Fortune (found in "Inferno" VII).