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Dantesque

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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.
Dantesque
from or resembling the characters, scenes, or events in Dante’s works.
See also: Dante
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Adj.1.Dantesque - of or relating to Dante Alighieri or his writings
Dantean
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Dantesque
adj → dantesk


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The insular, Brahmin professors--James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow--gather as the "Dante Club" to discuss canto by canto Longfellow's translation, yet reluctantly to help the Boston police solve the Dantesque murders.
Dante's divine comedy in America by Alexander, Benjamin B. / Modern Age
With a hopeful Dantesque flourish he ends his story by announcing that the (straight) female impersonator named Honey, whose troubled life we have been following, has now quit the Sapphire beer bar "after fathering a child a beautiful, bright-eyed little boy named Love.
I have seen the future, and it stinks by Heinegg, Peter / Cross Currents
The air of grotesque magnification transforms Dantesque terror into comedy and silent gravity into graveyard humor.
Telling tales by Anfam, David / Artforum International
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