Possible Clues:

• Italy's supreme poet
• Poet who went to hell
• Infernal writer finally burned at stake
• Writer not ultimately adopted by Andersen?
• Writer quite slowly knocking out leading article
• Time to bring in new poet
• "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here" poet
• Time saved by European poet
• Boccaccio dubbed his epic ''Divina''
• Whom Boccaccio called ''ever melancholy and pensive''