Dante

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Dante

(ˈdæntɪ; ˈdɑːnteɪ; Italian ˈdante)

(Biography) 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

Dantean, Dantesque adj

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Dan•te

(ˈdɑn teɪ, -ti, ˈdæn ti)

n.

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

Dan•te•an (ˈdæn ti ən, dænˈti-) adj., n.

Dan•tesque (dænˈtɛsk) adj.

Dante

[ˈdæntɪ] N → Dante

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Dante

n → Dante m

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I remember vividly another evening, when something led us to talk of Dante's veneration for Virgil.

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I teach the sublime Dante to the young Misses, and ah!--my-soul-bless-my-soul!--it is not in human language to say how the sublime Dante puzzles the pretty heads of all three!

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When time for payment arrives, if you exhibit a familiarity with legal rates you come to know what contempt is; if you find that you have left your pocketbook behind you are made to realise the mildness of Dante's imagination.

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The middle of the century is marked by a new Romantic impulse, the Pre-Raphaelite Movement, which begins with Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

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"What ails our friend?" said Aramis, "he resembles one of Dante's damned, whose neck Apollyon has dislocated and who are ever looking at their heels.

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To make it fair, Ruskin had relit the seven lamps of architecture, and written the seven labours of Hercules; for these windows through a whole youth Burne Jones had worshipped painted glass at Oxford, and to breathe romance into these frescos had Rossetti been born, and Dante born again.

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Like Dante or Bunyan, he has a revelation of another life; like Bacon, he is profoundly impressed with the unity of knowledge; in the early Church he exercised a real influence on theology, and at the Revival of Literature on politics.

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As they lay sprawled about the floor, sometimes overlapping one another, again in heaps of several bodies, they suggested instantly to me the grotesque illustrations that I had seen in copies of Dante's INFERNO, and what more fitting comparison?

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We saw Dante's tomb in that church, also, but we were glad to know that his body was not in it; that the ungrateful city that had exiled him and persecuted him would give much to have it there, but need not hope to ever secure that high honor to herself.

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"There's Venice and India and, I think, Dante, too."

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And by the time of the Battle of the Black River he had fallen from world to world to that place which Dante makes the lowest floor of the universe."

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I remembered again the blood-beslobbered face which we had seen in the glare of Lord John's torch, like some horrible vision from the deepest circle of Dante's hell.