Dante
Medieval Italian poet
Dante is an Italian given name, most famously borne by Dante Alighieri, the medieval poet who wrote the *Divine Comedy*.
References to Dante usually mean this poet or his work: a Dantean vision of hell, Dante's Inferno.
The name remains in use, particularly in Italian and Spanish-speaking cultures.
Literary journey through damnation
- ParadisoHeaven in verse
- BeatriceClassical feminine name
- VirgilClassical epic poet
- cantoDivision of long verse
canticle · afterlife · salvation · redemption · pilgrim · journey · souls · heaven
Equidistant curves from centers
- VirgilClassical epic poet
- BeatriceClassical feminine name
- sinnersMoral law violators
- CharonMythical underworld ferryman
Minos · Cerberus · Lucifer · Paolo · Francesca · limbo · lust · gluttony
Metered poetic passage
- sonnetFourteen-line metered poem
- rhymeMatching terminal sounds
- meterDevice that measures usage
- stanzaPoem's line grouping
lyric · couplet · vernacular · Tuscan · Italian · dolce stil novo · canzone · rime
Italian prose master
- PetrarchMedieval Italian lyric poet
- humanismPhilosophy prioritizing earthly reason
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
- literatureBody of written works
Longfellow · Rossetti · Eliot · Borges · Milton · Blake · illustrations · translations
Greek founder of formal logic
- AquinasScholastic philosopher-theologian surname
- AugustineFourth-century church father
- scholasticismRigorous dialectical learning method
- reasonBasis or justification
faith · ethics · cosmology · free will · love · virtue · natural philosophy · medieval thought
Banishment from homeland
- TuscanyCentral Italian region
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
- politicsGovernmental power struggles
banishment · citizenship · civic · Florentine · Baptistery · Ravenna · tomb · statesman
Formal scholarly composition
- manuscriptOriginal text before publication
- proseUnversified language
- lettersAlphabetic characters or mail
- commentaryExplanatory remarks on events
Latin · vernacular · scholar · writer · literary · works · oeuvre · corpus
Inferno
Literary journey through damnation
canto · canticle · afterlife · salvation · redemption · pilgrim · journey · souls · heaven · hell
circles
Equidistant curves from centers
Charon · Minos · Cerberus · Lucifer · Paolo · Francesca · limbo · lust · gluttony · greed
verse
Metered poetic passage
stanza · lyric · couplet · vernacular · Tuscan · Italian · dolce stil novo · canzone · rime · eloquence
Boccaccio
Italian prose master
- PetrarchMedieval Italian lyric poet
- humanismPhilosophy prioritizing earthly reason
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
literature · Longfellow · Rossetti · Eliot · Borges · Milton · Blake · illustrations · translations · legacy
Aristotle
Greek founder of formal logic
- AquinasScholastic philosopher-theologian surname
- AugustineFourth-century church father
- scholasticismRigorous dialectical learning method
reason · faith · ethics · cosmology · free will · love · virtue · natural philosophy · medieval thought · universals
exile
Banishment from homeland
- TuscanyCentral Italian region
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
politics · banishment · citizenship · civic · Florentine · Baptistery · Ravenna · tomb · statesman · faction
treatise
Formal scholarly composition
- manuscriptOriginal text before publication
- proseUnversified language
- lettersAlphabetic characters or mail
commentary · Latin · vernacular · scholar · writer · literary · works · oeuvre · corpus
- literaturebooks, book, fiction, poetry, stories
- AuthorsShakespeare, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Escritoresbardo, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Borges, Jorge Luis Borges
- Famous AuthorsShakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Hemingway, Twain
- Literary AuthorsC.S. Lewis, Dostoevsky, J.R.R. Tolkien, Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde
- poetspoet, Homer, Milton, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost
DanteBoccaccio
Italian prose master
Cervantes · novelists · Samuel Richardson · Daniel Defoe · essayists
DanteNietzsche
German philosopher of will
atheists · materialists · nihilists · Voltaire · Lucretius
DanteByron
Titled Romantic versifier
Voltaire · Oscar Wilde · Jonathan Swift · Aristophanes · satirists
- Dante's InfernoEpic poem depicting hell
- Dante Alighieri
- Dante's Divine ComedyEpic poem through Hell, Purgatory, Paradise