The paper’s main topic and therefore its title is loanwords from Italian idioms in the translation of “Inferno” by Slavko Kalčić (Canto XII-XXII). The main scope of this paper was to identify romanisms present in Kalčić’s translation by finding their etimology in the following dictionaries: Vocabulario Giuliano (VG) by Enrico Rosamani, Dizionario del dialetto veneziano (DDV) by Giuseppe Boeri and finally Riječnik roverskih i okolnih govora (RROG) written by Slavko Kalčić, Goran Filipi and Valter Milovan. The paper starts with Dante’s biography and citations from his most important works with anaccent on Divine Comedy and completing it all with notes about his well received literary work in Croatian circles. With the help of Divine comedy Dante expresses how a literary movement called Dolce Stil novo also known as Stilnovismo have influenced medieval culture and describes what medieval culture was like while examining questions of moral and ethical nature. Despite the diversity of situations, tones, colours and pictures which animate it, the plot is straight-forward and linear in its development. It’s a story about a man named Dante who consciously came to a conclusion he got lost in the dark forest of sin. Interestingly enough, Dante Alighieri’s work was well received in Croatian literature circles ranging way back from Early ages to contemporary times. It was Marko Marulić who translated the first Canto of Inferno on latin in a Croatian seaside town of Split, on the East Adriatic coast. Consequently the aforementioned translation is one of the earliest translations of Dante’s work on a foreign language and a first translation in Croatia on record. Secondly, we are exceeding to the biography of Slavko Kalčić, Croatian poet, novelist, translator and journalist, born in Juršići in 1954 and deceased in Pula in 2012. Slavko covered translations from both Italian and Slovenian language from which he earned recognition by Istrian county in 2011 for his translational work of Dante’s Divine comedy. Two books were published: Pakà (2010) and Čistilȉšče (2011). Unfortunately, his death disrupted his intent of completing his third book, Raj. He thought of his work titled Bogodična komedija his biggest accomplishment and commented that writing on a regional dialect is very demanding work. Also worth noting is his interest of national and cultural customs of Istrian Croats after which he left interesting writings. In the 4 th chapter language contacts and romanisms in the chakavian dialect are being observed. Language contacts have always been a result of historical and cultural relations, while Croatian-roman influences lasted and survived from the beginning of Croatian history on the Adriatic east coast. These influences paved the road for acclaiming mediterranean culture as a important component of Croatian cultural identity. Romanism is one of the most notable characteristic of poetry written on chakavian dialect. In the end, etymological analysis of loanwords present in the chakavian translation of Divine Comedy, namely Bogodična komedija by Slavko Kalčić. Ten canti were analysed, from the 12 th to 22 nd . Overall, 168 romanisms were identified, of which the most common are nouns (78), verbs (59) and adverbs (21).