The title " teacher " was first given to Aristotle by Muslim scholars, and was later used by Western philosophers ( as in the famous poem of Dante ) who were influenced by the tradition of Islamic philosophy.

DiFranco was born in Buffalo, New York, to Elizabeth and Dante DiFranco, who had met while attending MIT.

Popular outfielder Dante Bichette was traded to the Cincinnati Reds.

Don's father was named Ugo Dante Rosa, but used the name " Hugo Don " Rosa in America.

It is believed Boccaccio was tutored by Giovanni Mazzuoli and received from him an early introduction to the works of Dante.

The high seriousness of the subject was also epitomized in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's painting ( illustrated ), in which a woman modelled by Jane Morris holds the Grail with one hand, while adopting a gesture of blessing with the other.

What would come to be thought of as Italian was first formalized in the early fourteenth century through the works of Tuscan writer Dante Alighieri, written in his native Florentine.

Whereas Dante Gabriel Rossetti, in his own commentary compares the Minotaur with all three sins of violence within the seventh circle: " The Minotaur, who is situated at the rim of the tripartite circle, fed, according to the poem was biting himself ( violence against oneself ) and was conceived in the ' false cow ' ( violence against nature, daughter of God ).

The various uses of ḥuzn and hüzün thus describe melancholy from a certain vantage point, show similarities with female hysteria in the case of Avicenna's patient and in a religious context it is not unlike sloth, which by Dante was defined as " failure to love God with all one's heart, all one's mind and all one's soul ".

The Italian medieval poet Dante was the first to have recorded the term lingua d ' oc.

Dante was a friend of his father.

Petrarch confessed to Boccaccio that he had never read the Commedia, remarks Contini, wondering whether this was true or Petrarch wanted to distance himself from Dante.

The free commune, the place that had made Dante an eminent politician and scholar, was being dismantled: the signoria was taking its place.

In a clear disagreement with Dante, in 1346 Petrach argued in his De vita solitaria that Pope Celestine V's refusal of the papacy in 1294 was as a virtuous example of solitary life.

Dante settled his score with Boniface in Part One of the Divine Comedy, the Inferno, by damning the pope even before his death in 1303 ( the poet set the time of the poem as being in the year 1300 ) in the pit of those whose sin was simony.

* In his Inferno, Dante portrayed Boniface VIII as destined for hell, where simony is punished, although Boniface was still alive at the fictional date of the poem's story.

Petrarch was moved to defend Celestine vigorously against the accusation of cowardice and some modern scholars ( e. g., Mark Musa ) have suggested Dante may have meant someone else ( Esau, Diocletian and Pontius Pilate have been variously suggested ).

The modern Italian of Risorgimento patriots like Alessandro Manzoni was based on the Tuscan dialects sanctified by Dante and Petrarch.

Other Italian poets of the time, including Dante Alighieri ( 1265 – 1321 ) and Guido Cavalcanti ( c. 1250 – 1300 ) wrote sonnets, but the most famous early sonneteer was Petrarca ( known in English as Petrarch ).

The ferryman Charon is believed to have transported the souls of the newly dead across this river into the underworld, though in the original Greek and Roman sources, as well as in Dante, it was the river Acheron that Charon plied.

In his Divine Comedy, Dante places Albertus with his pupil Thomas Aquinas among the great lovers of wisdom ( Spiriti Sapienti ) in the Heaven of the Sun.

In Dante Alighieri's Inferno, Canto VI, the " great worm " Cerberus is found in the Third Circle of Hell, where he oversees and rends to pieces those who have succumbed to gluttony, one of the seven deadly sins.

Rapidity or ease of movement, plainness of expression, and plainness of thought are not distinguishing qualities of the great epic poets Virgil, Dante, and Milton.

In The Divine Comedy Dante sees John XXI ( referred to as " Pietro Spano ") in the Heaven of the Sun with the other spirits of great religious scholars.

Dante ’ s Divine Comedy includes many references to the great feudal families who had huge jurisdictions with administrative and judicial rights.

* Reflecting the respect which medieval European scholars paid to him, Averroes is named by Dante in The Divine Comedy with the great pagan philosophers whose spirits dwell in " the place that favor owes to fame " in Limbo.

It was with the 14th century that major works of English literature began once again to appear ; these include the so-called Pearl Poet's Pearl, Patience, Cleanness, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ; Langland's political and religious allegory Piers Plowman ; Gower's Confessio Amantis ; and, of course, the works of Chaucer, the most highly regarded English poet of the Middle Ages, who was seen by his contemporaries as a successor to the great tradition of Virgil and Dante.

The decoration of the lower walls, unprecedented in the history of art, are richly decorated with a great deal of subsidiary work connected with Dante, specifically the first eleven books of his Purgatorio, and with the poets and legends of antiquity.

Of his sons, Bartolomeo, Alboino and Cangrande I, only the last shared the government ( 1308 ); he was great as warrior, prince, and patron of the arts ; he protected Dante, Petrarch, and Giotto.

* Giudizio degli antichi poeti sopra la moderna censura di Dante ( 1755 ), a defence of the great poet against the attacks of Bettinelli.

The opinions maintained in these letters against the two great Italian poets and particularly against Dante Alighieri, made him many enemies.

Lopez de Mendoza was a great admirer of Dante Alighieri and his work is categorized within the allegorical-Dantesque School.

But he finds solace in three boys who become his great friends: Tradd St. Croix, an " old Charlestonian " ( from a very rich and respected family ); Dante " Pig " Pignetti ; and Mark Santoro, two brawny, Northern boys of Italian descent.

Plumptre was a man of great versatility and attained high reputation as a translator of the plays of Sophocles ( 1865 ), Aeschylus ( 1868 ) and the Divina commedia of Dante ( 1886 ).

Some critics believe " The Thinker " was originally intended to depict Dante at the Gates of Hell, pondering his great poem.

Dante writes: " clerks and great and famous scholars, defiled in the world by one and the same sin " presumably the unspeakable one of sodomy.

One of Alianza greatest triumphs happened in 1966, when they defeated Santos, containing the great Pelé, at the Estadio Nacional Flor Blanca they were helped mostly from their foreign players Argentines Dante Juárez, Juan Verón and Santiago all on loan at the time.

His work, Dante in Love published in 2011, presents a glittering study of the great Italian poet Dante Alighieri, as an artist and philosopher, also depicting an in-depth portrait of medieval Florence in order to make readers understand the literary and cultural background that engendered the Tuscan's masterpiece, The Divine Comedy.

Partly for this scene, one academic called Dante " one of contemporary cinema's great pranksters.

From that moment in every season the choice of operas was marked by a fil rouge theme, demonstrating the great intellectual vitality of opera: il Gioco dei Potenti in 2007 with Macbeth, Maria Stuarda, Norma and the gala dance with Roberto Bolle and Alessandra Ferri ; " La seduzione " in 2008 when the two-time Oscar-winning citizen of Macerata, Dante Ferretti, was hired as director ; L ' inganno in 2009 with Don Giovanni and Madama Butterfly.

His ode to Dante, and that on the opening of the Suez Canal, are distinguished by great dignity.

He wrote a dissertation Sopra lo stato presente della lingua italiana, and endeavoured to establish the supremacy of Tuscan and of the three great writers, Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio.