Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe (DANTE) is a not-for-profit company that plans, builds and operates the consecutive generations of the backbone network that interconnects the national research and education networks (NRENs) in Europe. The organisation is based in Cambridge, United Kingdom and was formed in 1993 as a limited liability company owned by Réseaux Associés pour la Recherche Européenne (RARE). Ownership was transferred to a number of NRENs and government agencies in 1994.

Durante degli Alighieri , simply called Dante (, , ; c. 1265–1321), was a major Italian poet of the late Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called (modern Italian: Commedia) and later christened by Boccaccio, is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.