DURRANT

DURRANT. An ancient personal name, in Latin Duraudus, under which form it occurs in Domesday. An early Norman proprietor of this name founded Duranville (called in charters Durandi villa) near Bernai, in or before the eleventh century. The name of the immortal author of the Inferno was by baptism Durante— afterwards shortened by his familiar friends into Dante.

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