"La Vita Nuova" author

The answer

DANTE

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

Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1971. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• DANT (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
• Italian poet - used 15 times, most recently in 2009
• "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
• Poet Rossetti - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
• Beatrice's admirer - used 6 times, most recently in 2009

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