| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Dante Alighieri |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Dan·te A·li·ghie·ri |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  dän t ä l -gy r |
| DATES: | 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. | | OTHER FORMS: | Dante·an —ADJECTIVE & NOUN
Dan·tesque (dän-tsk) —ADJECTIVE
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