It’s clear that Dante personally identifies with David. The first words the pilgrim speaks in the poem, in the first canto of Inferno, are “Have mercy on me,” upon seeing the shade of Virgil ...
The Paradiso fresco of Andrea Orcagna and the Inferno fresco of his brother Bernardo ... clearly derived from Dante's depiction of the Suicides of Canto 13, and repeated then in the fragment. Nardo's ...