In Literature
In the Divine Comedy, Dante sees Guiscard's spirit in the Heaven of Mars, along with other "warriors of the faith" who exemplify the cardinal virtue of fortitude. In the Inferno, Dante describes Guiscard's enemies as a field of mutilated shades stretching out to the horizon.
Guiscard was the protagonist of Kleist's verse drama Robert Guiskard, incomplete at the author's death (1811).
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