Dante and Virgil in front of Charon's boat.- Painting by Paolo Vetri (1855-1937).It depicts a scene from the Inferno; the first section of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.- Dante Alighieri (Durante Alighieri; dit Dante)(1265-1321); Virgil (Virgile; Vergil; Publius Vergilius Maro) (70-19 BC).- Charon is a psychopomp; the ferryman of Hades who carries souls of the newly deceased who had received the rites of burial; across the river that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead.- Oil on canvas.Palermo; Galleria d'Arte Moderna 鈥楨mpedocle Restivo'.