1. Dante - Noun
2. Dante - Proper 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)
Source: WordNetBesides, isn't it confoundedly easy to think you're a great man if you aren't burdened with the slightest idea that Rembrandt, Beethoven, Dante or Napoleon ever lived? Stefan Zweig
Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. John F. Kennedy
I believe in the future a new Dante will write a new Divine Comedy. Ba Jin
Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage. Gustav Stresemann
In Dante the hero would rather flee and renounce the tempting embrace instead of yielding to his desires and enduring the attendant dangers. Peter Weiss
Oh their Rafael of the dear Madonnas, Oh their Dante of the dread Inferno, Wrote one songand in my brain I sing it Drew one angelborne, see, on my bosom. Robert Browning