[2] He appears as a character in Canto 24 of Dante's Purgatorio, where he comments on the dolce stil novo ("sweet new style") of his successors.
[1] Bonagiunta appears among the gluttons in Canto 24 of Purgatorio, the second canticle of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.
Bonagiunta is first pointed out by Forese Donati, who names numerous poets for Dante because their faces are unrecognizable due to their contrapasso: fasting.
Both early and modern commentators have suggested that Bonagiunta was included in the Divine Comedy as the result of his tenzoni with Dante and Guido Guinizzelli, another practitioner of the dolce stil novo.
[4] Dante, who had previously argued in his De vulgari eloquentia that Bonagiunta's poetry overutilizes abstract terminology and does not live up to poetry's fullest potential, has Bonagiunta praise Dante (the character) and remark that he has a newfound understanding and appreciation of his dolce stil novo in Canto 24.