The best sentence which explains Dante's use of imagery is that, Dante grieves and cries and this suggests that, Dante is not a hero in this traditional Roman and Greek sense.
Dante is a short name of Durante degli Alighieri. He was a poet and his most poets were written in Latin and only the educated people could access it.
He was used as an instrument by Italy to establish literature.
<span>In the Hobbit there is once or twice the Necromancer in the Mirkwood, which is an allusion to Sauron in the Hobbits Sequel, The Lord of the Rings.</span>