Ulysses and the Limits of Dante's Humanism / Ulisse o dei limiti dell'umanesimo dantescoIn his description of Ulysses in Canto XXVI of the Inferno, Dante subjected the legendary Greek hero to a thoroughgoing revision. The Homeric Ulysses, after ten years of war and a further ten of fabulous adventures throughout the Mediterranean, returns home to Ithaca and resumes his position as son, father, husband, and king of the island. In contrast, Dante's Ulysses and that of Tennyson, inspired by Dante and so beloved in America is an ingenious