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Dante Alighieri

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Dan·te A·li·ghie·ri  (dänt äl-gyr) 1265-1321.
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.
Dante·an adj. & n.
Dan·tesque (dän-tsk) adj.
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Noun1.Dante AlighieriDante Alighieri - 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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During this time, they actually come face to face with both Dante Alighieri and Sir Thomas Aquinas, thanks to wizardry and some good luck.
Ward, John. The Secret of the Alchemist: The Fate of the Stone by Klein, Miles / Kliatt
For "The Trivium," first shown at Pomona College in 2001 and then the following year at Galerie Kamm in Berlin, Arceneaux used his trademark pencil drawings on vellum, along with found images, to spirit Dante Alighieri, Socrates, rapper Pharoahe Monch, and jazz giants Pharoah Sanders and Thelonious Monk into a dizzying exploration of linguistics and improvisation that took its title from a medieval term denoting the three pillars of a classical education (grammar, logic, and rhetoric).
Elective affinities: Jeffrey Kastner on the art of Edgar Arceneaux by Kastner, Jeffrey / Artforum International
Russell sort of acknowledges the problem by saying in his preface that he sees A History of Heaven as a "prolegomenon to a detailed, multivolume study of heaven"; and by slipping a justification for his premature ending to his survey into the opening of chapter 13: "The Paradiso of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is the most sublime portrait of heaven from the Book of Revelation to the present.
A History of Heaven: The Singing Silence by Maitland, Sara / Commonweal
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