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Dantean
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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.

Dantean [ˈdæntɪən dænˈtiːən], Dantesque [dænˈtɛsk]
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(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) of or relating to Dante (Alighieri), the Italian poet (1265-1321), or reminiscent of his allegorical account of a journey through Hell in La Divina Commedia
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Adj.1.Dantean - of or relating to Dante Alighieri or his writings
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Dantean
adjdantisch


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Huw Edwards has produced a book of a type familiar enough to Danteans and Chaucerians, but rarer in Welsh medieval studies, even on a poet of such remarkable mastery as Dafydd ap Gwilym.
 
 
 
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