Romola by George Eliot: “I have seen men whose beards have so invaded their cheeks, that one might have pitied them as the victims of a sad, brutalising chastisement befitting our Dante's Inferno, if they had not seemed to strut with a strange triumph in their extravagant hairiness."”
Trilby by George du Maurier: “reads Mr. Rudyard Kipling's delightful stories as well as Dante's "Inferno"”
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer: “Reade the greate poet of ltale, That Dante hight, for he can it devise”
Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw: “I have enjoyed, too, my rests, my recuperations, my breathing times, my very prostrations after strife; but rather would I be dragged through all the circles of the foolish Italian's Inferno than through the pleasures of Europe.”
The Mystery of Cloomber by Arthur Conan Doyle: “a spot the gloomy horror of which might have furnished Dante with a fresh terror for his 'Inferno.'”
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster: “The latter wrote the 'Inferno,' the 'Purgatorio,' the 'Paradiso.' The 'Inferno' is the most beautiful.”
The Secret History by Donna Tartt: “Bunny packs "a copy of Dorothy Sayers's translation of Inferno"; later, in discussion of Klytemnestra's speech, Francis references "those really hideous parts of Inferno, ... Pier de Medicina with his nose hacked off."”
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell: “MOYERS: I remember in Dante's Inferno, as Dante is looking on the great lovers of history in hell, he sees Helen, and he sees Cleopatra, and he sees Tristan.”
Lent by Jo Walton: “"a quotation from Dante: ABANDON HOPE" (also: "The Fourth Circle of Hell, in Dante" and "Circle Seven of Hell, according to Dante")”
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom: “from Homer's Odyssey through Dame's Inferno on to Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida”
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell: “It was like going into the transit version of Dante's Inferno.”
East of Eden by John Steinbeck: “He had no idea where he had got his picture of academic life— perhaps from the Doré illustrations of Dante's Inferno with its massed and radiant angels.”
Italo Calvino by Martin McLaughlin: “Dante's Inferno, like the first sections in Palomar, is largely visual”
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood: “He has several highly valuable editions that I envy: Dore's Inferno, Dali's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Picasso's Lysistrata.”
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot: “63. Cf. Inferno, iii. 55-7.”
The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: “As they lay sprawled about the floor, sometimes overlapping one another, again in heaps of several bodies, they suggested instantly to me the grotesque illustrations that I had seen in copies of Dante's INFERNO, and what more fitting comparison?”
John Halifax, Gentleman by Dinah Mulock Craik: “For a single instant they gazed at one another--besotted husband, dishonoured, divorced wife--gazed with horror and fear, as two sinners who had been each other's undoing, might meet in the poetic torments of Dante's "Inferno," or the tangible fire and brimstone of many a blind but honest Christian's hell.”
Roderick Hudson by Henry James: “So he lent him the Inferno, which he had brought with him, and advised him to look into it.”
Psmith, Journalist by P. G. Wodehouse: “Burned deeply into my memory is a certain hot bath I took after one of the foulest cross-country runs that ever occurred outside Dante's Inferno.”
Cogwheels by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa: “I remembered the souls turned into trees in Dante's Inferno, and decided to walk on the far side of the tram tracks, where there was nothing but rows of buildings. [auto-translated]”