Dante
['dænti]
Definition
(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).
Checker: Newman--From WordNet
Examples
- She had planned other employments for herself: a letter to Edith, a good piece of Dante, a visit to the Higginses. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- We are all four of us down together in the Hell of Dante. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He may make Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Plato, Bacon the friends and companions of his life. Plato. The Republic.
- The promise I had made to the d?mon weighed upon my mind, like Dante's iron cowl on the heads of the hellish hypocrites. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I teach the sublime Dante to the young Misses, and ah! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He was fond, says Liebknecht, of quoting as his motto the defiant line of Dante, with which he afterwards concluded his preface to 'Das Kapital': 'Segui il tuo corso e lascia dir le genti. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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