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Definition of Dante
1. Noun. An Italian poet famous for writing the Divine Comedy that describes a journey through Hell and purgatory and paradise guided by Virgil and his idealized Beatrice (1265-1321).
Definition of Dante
1. Proper noun. (Italian male given name) of Italian origin, presumably in honor of the poet. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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Literary usage of Dante
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1848)
"The city of Florence, in 1373, with a magnanimity which almost redeems her original
injustice, appointed a public professor to read lectures upon Dante ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"Dante says that the subject of the work, taken literally, is the state of souls
after death, ... Dante is impatient of vagueness. He is intensely realistic. ..."
3. The Reformation by George Park Fisher (1906)
"But Dante receives the dogmas of the Church ; his whole work is cast in the ...
1 A class of critics have unsuccessfully attempted to show that Dante was ..."
4. American Book Prices Current (1901)
"(273) $4.25 2094 Dante Society. FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT, May 19, 1885. ... [With an
essay on Dante by Lowell, reprinted from Appleton's Cyclopaedia, [1859. ..."
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