Editing Harpy (section)

===Literature===
Harpies remained vivid in the [[Middle Ages]]. In Canto XIII of his ''[[Inferno (Dante)|Inferno]]'', [[Dante Alighieri]] envisages the tortured wood infested with harpies, where the [[suicide]]s have their punishment in the [[Inferno (Dante)#Seventh Circle (Violence)|seventh ring of Hell]]:

{{poemquote|Here the repellent harpies make their nests,
Who drove the Trojans from the Strophades
With dire announcements of the coming woe.
They have broad wings, with razor sharp talons and a human neck and face,
Clawed feet and swollen, feathered bellies; they caw
Their lamentations in the eerie trees.<ref>[http://new.bostonreview.net/BR18.1/dante.html Translation of Robert Pinsky, ''Boston Review''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141104235244/http://new.bostonreview.net/BR18.1/dante.html |date=2014-11-04 }}</ref>}}

In Canto XXXIII of [[Orlando Furioso]], author [[Ludovico Ariosto]] has the Christian Ethiopian Emperor Senapo ([[Prester John]]) afflicted with harpies under circumstances nearly identical to those in the myth of Phineus. He has been blinded by God himself, and the harpies contaminate his every meal. Senapo is delivered from this torment by [[Astolfo]], a paladin from the court of [[Charlemagne]].<ref>[[Ludovico Ariosto]], [[Orlando Furioso]] 33.101</ref>

[[William Blake]] was inspired by Dante's description in his pencil, ink, and watercolour ''[[The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides]]'' (Tate Gallery, London).

Harpies also found a role in [[Shakespeare]]'s [[The Tempest|Tempest]], where the spirit [[Ariel (The Tempest)|Ariel]] tortured the antagonists Antonio, Sebastian, and Alonso for their crimes by staging a banquet scene similar to that in the [[Aeneid]].[[File:DEU Nürnberg COA (groß).svg|thumb|Greater coat of arms of the city of [[Nuremberg]]|198x198px]]