Older Than Print: In The Divine Comedy, Dante is the author Dante Alighieri with some amount of Wish-Fulfillment: he will get to see his authentic-daily life enemies burn off in hell, interact with famed persons he admires, reunite with his serious-existence lost like Beatrice who turns out to have loved him so a lot that she set up this total journey to save him, and ascend all the way up to Heaven to see God up near.