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Dante
Dante Dante is one of the most cosmically charged names in Western literature — to carry it is to carry the journey through the entire moral universe, from the darkest pit of Hell to the light of the Beatific Vision. The Latin root durare (to endure) proves prophetic for the historical Dante, who was exiled from Florence and spent the last twenty years of his life as a wanderer, enduring loss while creating the greatest work of his civilization. A character named Dante is expected to be tested to the depths and to return transformed.
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Dante
The Divine Comedy — Dante Alighieri
The poet-pilgrim who journeys through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise guided first by Virgil and then by Beatrice, in the supreme medieval vision of the afterlife and of poetic vocation.
Dante
Dante and Beatrice — Various interpretations
The literary persona of the poet who transformed his unrequited love for Beatrice Portinari into one of the most sustained acts of poetic devotion in Western literature.
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