Italian poet goes after a new slowish tempo (7)
I believe the answer is:
andante
'slowish tempo' is the definition.
'andante' can be an answer for 'tempo' (andante is a kind of tempo). I'm unsure of the 'slowish' bit.
'italian poet goes after a new' is the wordplay.
'italian poet' becomes 'Dante' (Dante Alighieri).
'goes after' says to put letters next to each other.
'new' becomes 'n' (common abbreviation eg NT for New Testament).
'a'+'n'='an'
'dante' after 'an' is 'ANDANTE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for andante that I've seen before include "(Of tempo) moderately slow" , "not hurrying from bar to bar" , "Musically, in moderately slow time" , "Moderately slow musical passage" , "not quickly" .)