He brilliantly recasts his experiences as a young man, reading Dante and Borges.

He has been reading and rereading Dante for most of his life, and has read about the poet compulsively.

I've not read Dante but from what you've written he doesn't seem that interested in explaining merely to describe and bedazzle with imagery.

Modigliani was a sickly boy who convalesced by reading Dante and Ariosto.

But is there an Italian-English dictionary useful for reading Dante?

But I will read Dante all week while you are gone.

It had been a long time since I had read Dante.

In the early days, students did not read Homer, Dante and Goethe; professors used their own work.

That is why I read Dante now.

But it wasn't like reading Dante.