1. 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); [syn: Dante, Dante Alighieri]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Dante Alighieri
n 1: 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)
[syn: Dante, Dante Alighieri]