There is a link between Yann Martel's Beatrice and Virgil and Dante's Beatrice and Virgil from his famous poem The Divine Comedy.
From wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Comedy
The poem is written in the first person, and tells of Dante's journey through the three realms of the dead, lasting from the night before Good Friday to the Wednesday after Easter in the spring of 1300.
The Roman poet Virgil guides him through Hell and Purgatory;
Beatrice,
Dante's ideal woman, guides him through Heaven. Beatrice was a
Florentine woman whom he had met in childhood and admired from afar in
the mode of the then-fashionable courtly love tradition, which is highlighted in Dante's earlier work La Vita Nuova.
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