The Divine Comedy · Character Index
360 characters extracted from the original text, every relationship traceable to a quoted passage. Start from the major figures, or browse by house.
⭐ Constellation map → · 📖 Read the original → · 🕰 Chronicle → · 📍 Places →
Major figures
- Dante — 305 relationships · traveler
- Virgilius — 152 relationships · poet and guide
- Beatrice — 79 relationships · heavenly helper
- God — 37 relationships · divine ruler
- Christ — 31 relationships · religious figure
- Peter — 26 relationships · apostle
- Malacoda — 24 relationships · devil
- Statius — 16 relationships · poet and penitent soul
- Mary — 15 relationships · mother of Christ
- Francis — 13 relationships · saint
- Guido del Duca — 13 relationships · soul on the mountain
- Cacciaguida — 10 relationships · Dante’s ancestor
- Lucia — 10 relationships · heavenly helper
- Thomas of Aquinum — 10 relationships · historical person
- Adam — 9 relationships · first father
- Bernard — 9 relationships · friar
- Pier da Medicina — 9 relationships
- Sordello — 9 relationships · soul in Purgatory
- Achilles — 8 relationships · lustful soul
- Benedict — 8 relationships · monk
- Charles — 8 relationships · king
- Dominic — 8 relationships · saint
- Mahomet — 8 relationships
- Mosca — 8 relationships · condemned soul
By house
Unaffiliated (62)
- Christ — 31 relationships · religious figure
- Guido del Duca — 13 relationships · soul on the mountain
- Pier da Medicina — 9 relationships
- Sordello — 9 relationships · soul in Purgatory
- Dominic — 8 relationships · saint
- Mahomet — 8 relationships
- Antaeus — 7 relationships
- Bertram de Born — 7 relationships
- Justinian — 7 relationships · emperor
- Bocca — 6 relationships
- Count Ugolino — 6 relationships · condemned count
- Curio — 6 relationships
- Guido Guinicelli — 6 relationships · poet
- Guidoguerra — 6 relationships · sinner
- Ali — 5 relationships
- Beccaria — 5 relationships
- Forese — 5 relationships · penitent soul
- Geryon — 5 relationships · monster
- Gianni del Soldanier — 5 relationships
- Guido — 5 relationships · Farinata's son
- Homer — 5 relationships
- Horace — 5 relationships
- Master Adam — 5 relationships · counterfeiter
- Matilda — 5 relationships · guide of the earthly paradise
- Piccarda — 5 relationships · Forese's sister
- Aeneas — 4 relationships · hero
- Attila — 4 relationships · tyrant
- Augustus — 4 relationships · Roman emperor
- Bonaventura of Bagnoregio — 4 relationships · saint
- Buonconte — 4 relationships · penitent soul
- Camicion de’ Pazzi — 4 relationships
- Capaneus — 4 relationships · damned soul
- Catalano — 4 relationships · Frati Gaudenti friar
- Chiron — 4 relationships · centaur
- Ganellon — 4 relationships
- Hyperion — 4 relationships · mythological figure
- Jacopo — 4 relationships · suicide
- Jove — 4 relationships · god
- Marco — 4 relationships
- Nessus — 4 relationships · centaur
- Pyrrhus — 4 relationships
- Rahab — 4 relationships
- Rinier Pazzo — 4 relationships · highwayman
- Rinier da Corneto — 4 relationships · highwayman
- Sextus — 4 relationships
- Tebaldello — 4 relationships
- Tegghiaio Aldobrandi — 4 relationships · sinner
- Buonagiunta — 3 relationships · poet
- Cato — 3 relationships · guardian
- Charon — 3 relationships · ferryman
- David — 3 relationships · king and psalmist
- Duera — 3 relationships
- Folco — 3 relationships
- Gianni Schicchi — 3 relationships · counterfeiter
- Guglielmo Borsier — 3 relationships · sinner
- Loderingo — 3 relationships · Frati Gaudenti friar
- Macarius — 3 relationships · monk
- Minotaur — 3 relationships · monster
- Nino — 3 relationships · judge
- Peter Damiano — 3 relationships · blessed soul
- Renier — 3 relationships · soul on the mountain
- Romualdus — 3 relationships · monk
hell (15)
- Achilles — 8 relationships · lustful soul
- Mosca — 8 relationships · condemned soul
- Ciacco — 6 relationships · condemned soul
- Jacopo Rusticucci — 6 relationships · condemned soul
- Semiramis — 6 relationships · lustful soul
- Cleopatra — 5 relationships · lustful soul
- Farinata — 5 relationships · condemned soul
- Helen — 5 relationships · lustful soul
- Paris — 5 relationships · lustful soul
- Tristan — 5 relationships · lustful soul
- Minos — 4 relationships · judge
- Brutus — 3 relationships · traitor
- Capocchio — 3 relationships · shade and alchemist
- Dido — 3 relationships · lustful soul
- Plutus — 3 relationships · demon
heaven (6)
- Beatrice — 79 relationships · heavenly helper
- God — 37 relationships · divine ruler
- Mary — 15 relationships · mother of Christ
- Cacciaguida — 10 relationships · Dante’s ancestor
- Lucia — 10 relationships · heavenly helper
- Adam — 9 relationships · first father
malebranche (5)
- Malacoda — 24 relationships · devil
- Alichino — 5 relationships · devil
- Calcabrina — 5 relationships · devil
- Barbariccia — 3 relationships · devil
- Farfarello — 3 relationships · devil
the blessed (5)
- Francis — 13 relationships · saint
- Bernard — 9 relationships · friar
- Benedict — 8 relationships · monk
- John — 5 relationships · apostle and evangelist
- Rachel — 3 relationships · dream figure
purgatory (3)
- Statius — 16 relationships · poet and penitent soul
- Manfredi — 6 relationships · penitent soul
- San Zeno’s Abbot — 4 relationships · penitent soul
damned (3)
- Eryphylus — 3 relationships · augur
- Michael Scott — 3 relationships · magician
- Tiresias — 3 relationships · diviner
poets (2)
mythological (2)
classical mythology (2)
celestial (2)
living (1)
- Dante — 305 relationships · traveler
limbo (1)
- Virgilius — 152 relationships · poet and guide
christianity (1)
- Peter — 26 relationships · apostle
christian (1)
- Thomas of Aquinum — 10 relationships · historical person
french (1)
- Charles — 8 relationships · king
biblical (1)
- Moses — 5 relationships · prophet
gods (1)
- Apollo — 4 relationships · god of poetry
souls of the seventh circle (1)
- Brunetto Latini — 4 relationships · teacher and condemned soul
siena (1)
- Sapia — 4 relationships · penitent soul
malaspina (1)
- Currado Malaspina — 3 relationships · soul in Purgatory
biblical tradition (1)
- Daniel — 3 relationships · prophet
royalty (1)
- Empress Costanza — 3 relationships · empress
dream vision (1)
- Siren — 3 relationships · enchantress
Minor figures
Characters who appear only briefly are gathered here — each still has their own page.
- Other Figures — Minor Figures (183)
- Limbo — Minor Figures (10)
- Mythological — Minor Figures (10)
- Hell — Minor Figures (7)
- Damned — Minor Figures (7)
- Malebranche — Minor Figures (7)
- Christian Church — Minor Figures (6)
- Historical — Minor Figures (6)
- Ugolino's Family — Minor Figures (4)
Extracted from the original text of The Divine Comedy. Made with Rho MD.