A scholar or expert in the works and life of Dante Alighieri; someone who specializes in Dante studies.
From Dante's name plus the suffix '-ist' (meaning a person who practices or specializes in something), following the pattern of expert nomenclature in academic fields.
Dantists spend their entire careers untangling the medieval history, theology, and hidden meanings packed into every line of the Divine Comedy—it's like being a detective but for 700-year-old poetry!
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