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.
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The water was as calm as the forest
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