Turnus

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Turnus is recalled by Dante in Inferno I,108 alongside Camilla, Euryalus, and Nisus. The notes to the canto specify that these are young Virgilian heroes: Camilla, daughter of the king of the Volscians, and Turnus, king of the Rutulians, were fighting against Aeneas, while Euryalus and Nisus were two young Trojan friends. The commentary highlights that Dante, by naming these characters, establishes a parallel between that providential time and the present, and between the Aeneid and the Comedy. The alternation of the names of the victors and the vanquished, united in the same pity and the same glory, is indicated as a trait that is both Dantesque and typically Virgilian. The four heroes share the fact of having all died in the conflict between the Trojans and the Latins for supremacy in Latium.