Understood, but I'm not questioning a potential ATL use of the word Zombie. Instead, I'm questioning Kiat's implication that the word zombie hasn't formally evolved IOTL to also mean "Undead/Walking Dead" or what have you.
Not to mention that, at the time period, such a creature would have been known a "vampire" in Italian literature. So, if Dante (for whatever reason, and I'll be honest, I don't see why he would) wrote such a creature, we'd probably have a very different rendition of vampires (=modern zombies, roughly) entering popular consciousness, and within the framework of Christianity, to boot...