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Dante

[ dan-tee, dahn-tey; Italian dahn-te ]

noun

  1. Dante Alighieri, 1265–1321, Italian poet: author of the Divine Comedy.


Dante

/ dænˈtɛsk; ˈdæntɪən; ˈdæntɪ; dænˈtiːən; ˈdante; ˈdɑːnteɪ /

noun

  1. Dante12651321MItalianWRITING: poet full name Dante Alighieri ( Italian aliˈɡjɛːri). 1265–1321, Italian poet famous for La Divina Commedia (?1309–?1320), an allegorical account of his journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, guided by Virgil and his idealized love Beatrice. His other works include La Vita Nuova (?1292), in which he celebrates his love for Beatrice


Dante

  1. An Italian poet of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; his full name was Dante Alighieri. Dante is remembered for his masterpiece, , an epic about hell , purgatory , and heaven . The Divine Comedy was written as a memorial to Beatrice, a woman whom Dante loved and who died at an early age.


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Derived Forms

  • Dantean, adjective

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Example Sentences

Because Chirlane and I have had to talk to Dante for years, about the dangers he may face.

Grenier speaks about his favorite writers, from Dante to Fitzgerald, as if they are his best friends.

Creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko have you covered.

Sorry Augustine, Aquinas, Dante, and Erasmus you must have been just a bad dream.

He said it was a scene that only Dante could have described.

The intellectual temperament finds voice in many great expressions, which are very Dante and also very Thomas, as Par.

The poet Dante, then in his 24th year, was present, and served in the foremost troop of cavalry.

But Dante did not impose his language upon Italy by the sole superiority of his great poem.

It is remarkable that Dante has copied the same passage, and has the word voltando; Inf.

He spoke of Dante and Angelo, who were two of his heroes; he told of great experiences among the latter's titan frescos.

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