Possible Clues:

• Finally stand before poet
• ''The Inferno'' author
• He met Charon in the underworld
• “La Vita Nuova” author
• 'All hope abandon, ye who enter here' writer
• The 500 before made his comedy so divine?
• Italian poet, writer of the Divine Comedy
• Writer who went to hell?
• One of the so-called 'Three Crowns of Florence,' along with Petrarch and Boccaccio
• Thirteenth-fourteenth century Italian poet