This is not Dante. 
This is a photograph of Dante. 
This is a film showing an actor who pretends to be Dante. 
This is a film with Dante in the role of Dante. 
This is a man who dreams of Dante. 
This is a man called Dante who is not Dante. 
This is a man who apes Dante. 
This is a man who passes himself off as Dante. 
This is a man who dreams that he is Dante. 
This is a man who is the spitt’n image of Dante. 
This is a wax figure of Dante. 
This is a changeling, a double, an identical twin. 
This is a man who believes he is Dante. 
This is a man everyone, except Dante, believes to be Dante. 
This is a man everyone believes to be Dante, only he himself does not fall for it. 
This is a man no one believes to be Dante, except Dante. 
This is Dante.