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Dante
[ dan-tee, dahn-tey; Italian dahn-te ]
noun
- Dante Alighieri, 1265–1321, Italian poet: author of the Divine Comedy.
Dante
/ ˈdæntɪ; ˈdante; dænˈtiːən; ˈdɑːnteɪ; ˈdæntɪən; dænˈtɛsk /
noun
- 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
- An Italian poet of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; his full name was Dante Alighieri. Dante is remembered for his masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, 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.
Derived Forms
- Dantean, adjective
Example Sentences
In Ravenna, the royal couple will view the tomb of the Italian writer Dante, and the Queen will tour a museum commemorating the poet Lord Byron.
This boundary-pushing vision, inspired by Dante’s “Inferno,” appears vibrant and colorful in more ways than one.
A beard trimmer leaps into jugulars, a VCR shoots tapes like a cannon, and the carnage of consumer goods is nasty, gory and cruel, with a darkly comic mean streak that recalls Joe Dante’s “Gremlins.”
An analogy I make in the book is Dante writing the "Divine Comedy."
But the magic of my walk — stretches of different trails, patchworked together, leading from Cadman Drive to Coolidge Trail to Hogback Trail to Dante’s View to Mount Hollywood — comes from my knowing it so intimately.
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