Italian poet (5)
I believe the answer is:
dante
'italian poet' is the definition.
(Dante Alighieri)
This is all the clue.
(Other definitions for dante that I've seen before include "Italian poet, writer of the Divine Comedy" , "Net Da a poet" , "Thirteenth to fourteenth century Italian poet" , "Italian poet, 1265-1321" , "Great Italian poet of 'The Divine Comedy'" .)