Balzac's fiction takes in a world—an underworld might appropriately be said—of Dantesque proportions.
There is a Dantesque passage in which a chorus of demons is overheard by the pair—the soul and the angel.
A carnival of evil, weird and Dantesque, begins in the lonely cell.
The Shakespearian, the Dantesque, are in a line, two at most.
He approached Dantesque medivalism through Rossetti and, later on, at the original source.
