Many Dante scholars have tried to cope with this poetic anomaly by exalting Dante the traveler as the epic heror.

He began his academic career as a Dante scholar, publishing The Body of Beatrice in 1988.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, he was regarded as one of the foremost British Dante scholars.

The Italian word for Dante scholar.

Ludwig Gottfried Blanc (1781-1866) was a German philologist and Dante scholar.

In his own right he began his reputation as a Dante scholar in 1823.

Pearl, a recent law school graduate who is also a Dante scholar, has a theory about this.

For instance, Mr. Hollander quotes more than 60 authors, ranging from early-14th-century Dante scholars to students in his seminars at Princeton.

And I walked out of the library having decided that I was going to be a Dante scholar.

The New York Times referred to him as "a renowned Dante scholar and a wry poet in his own right".