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Dante is an Italian given name and surname. Etymologically , it is short for an old given name, Durante , and was first made popular by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri , whose real name was Durante.
Dante Alighieri (Italian: [ˈdante aliˈɡjɛːri]; most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri; [a] c. May 1265 – September 14, 1321), widely known mononymously as Dante, [b] was an Italian [c] poet, writer, and philosopher. [6]
Dante (name), a given name and surname, including a list of people and fictional characters with the name; Dante (comedian) (Jay Dante Rusciolelli, born 1970) Dante (footballer) (Dante Bonfim Costa Santos, born 1983) Bernabe Buscayno (fl. 1960–1976), or Kumander Dante, founder of the New People's Army in the Philippines; Dante the Great ...
Paradiso (Italian: [paraˈdiːzo]; Italian for "Paradise" or "Heaven") is the third and final part of Dante's Divine Comedy, following the Inferno and the Purgatorio.It is an allegory telling of Dante's journey through Heaven, guided by Beatrice, who symbolises theology.
A complete listing and criticism of all English translations of at least one of the three cantiche (parts) was made by Cunningham in 1966. [12] The table below summarises Cunningham's data with additions between 1966 and the present, many of which are taken from the Dante Society of America's yearly North American bibliography [13] and Società Dantesca Italiana [] 's international ...
Beatrice "Bice" di Folco Portinari [1] (Italian: [beaˈtriːtʃe portiˈnaːri]; 1265 – 8 or 19 June 1290) was an Italian woman who has been commonly identified as the principal inspiration for Dante Alighieri's Vita Nuova, and is also identified with the Beatrice who acts as his guide in the last book of his narrative poem the Divine Comedy (La Divina Commedia), Paradiso, and during the ...
The Henry Holiday painting Dante and Beatrice (1883) is inspired by La Vita Nuova, as was Dante Gabriel Rossetti's The Salutation of Beatrice (1859). Rossetti translated the work into English in 1848 and used the character name Monna Vanna from it as a title for his 1866 painting Monna Vanna .
Bishop Myriel – The Bishop of Digne (full name Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel, also called Monseigneur Bienvenu) – A kindly old priest promoted to bishop after a chance encounter with Napoleon. After Valjean steals some silver from him, he saves Valjean from being arrested and inspires Valjean to change his ways.