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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Italian poet whose masterpiece, The Divine Comedy (completed 1321), details his visionary progress through Hell and Purgatory, escorted by Virgil, and through Heaven, guided by his lifelong idealized love, Beatrice.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- 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)
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Today sees the release of "Dante's Inferno," which is to say a comic book based on a video game based on the first of the 14th century epic religious poem by Dante Alighieri, which is kind of insane.
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You will meet the characters of Dr. Balanzone, Sganapino, Fagiolino, Arlecchino, Pantalone but also great Italians from history such as Dante Alighieri and Giuseppe Verdi.
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My school, Dante Alighieri, was just across the street.
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He's since become the author of many an iconic volume about the likes of Jerry Lee Lewis, Dean Martin, Sonny Liston, and Dante Alighieri.
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Seven centuries ago, Dante Alighieri began the Commedia with these words: In the middle of the road of my life
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Dante Alighieri once wrote that "the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great crisis maintain their neutrality."
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He's since become the author of many an iconic volume about the likes of Jerry Lee Lewis, Dean Martin, Sonny Liston, and Dante Alighieri.
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He's since become the author of many an iconic volume about the likes of Jerry Lee Lewis, Dean Martin, Sonny Liston, and Dante Alighieri.
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He's since become the author of many an iconic volume about the likes of Jerry Lee Lewis, Dean Martin, Sonny Liston, and Dante Alighieri.
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He's since become the author of many an iconic volume about the likes of Jerry Lee Lewis, Dean Martin, Sonny Liston, and Dante Alighieri.
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