Italian poet

The answer

DANTE

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DANTE answer page.

Used 15 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2009; first recorded in 1956. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• TASSO (27 uses in xd)
• ARIOSTO (3 uses in xd)
• BETTI (1 uses in xd)
• PETRARCH (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for DANTE

Every other clue in this collection answered by DANTE, most used first.

• "Inferno" author - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
• "Divine Comedy" poet - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
• "Divine Comedy" writer - used 38 times, most recently in 2025
• "Inferno" poet - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
• "The Divine Comedy" poet - used 37 times, most recently in 2024
• Alighieri - used 29 times, most recently in 2006
• "Divine Comedy" author - used 28 times, most recently in 2024
• "Inferno" writer - used 19 times, most recently in 2024
• "The Divine Comedy" author - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
• Florentine poet - used 15 times, most recently in 2017
• "La Vita Nuova" poet - used 14 times, most recently in 2009
• "Purgatorio" poet - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Poet Alighieri - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Italy's "Supreme Poet" - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• "The Inferno" author - used 12 times, most recently in 2006
• Inferno describer - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• "The Divine Comedy" writer - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Author of "The Divine Comedy" - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
• "La Vita Nuova" writer - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
• "Purgatorio" writer - used 8 times, most recently in 2011
• "The Inferno" poet - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Beatrice's adorer - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• Infernal writer? - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
• "La Vita Nuova" author - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Poet Rossetti - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
• Beatrice's admirer - used 6 times, most recently in 2009

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Love, Italian-style - AMORE, used 132 times
• Poet T.S. - ELIOT, used 74 times
• Poet Nash - OGDEN, used 68 times
• "The Waste Land" poet - ELIOT, used 63 times
• Poet Dickinson - EMILY, used 61 times
• Poet W.H. - AUDEN, used 57 times

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