 One of Imperial’s poems (nº 226) features Dante as a principal character, and in large part consists of the imagined words of the Florentine poet.And when Imperial challenges the idea that Fortune is an extension of divine Providence, he explicitly mentions that he is disagreeing with Dante’s conception of Fortune (found in "Inferno" VII).Translations of lines from Dante abound in Imperial, though they are often placed in very different contexts.