Dante

name

Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Dànte, a reduced form of Durànte.

1. A male given name from Italian, presumably in honor of the poet Dante Alighieri.

   “Scattered around the contemporary city are thirty other plaques with passages from the Comedy , evoking a range of places Dante had known and moments and persons he had known or heard about in his thirty-five years of Florentine life:”