Literature · Philosophy · Religion · 1265–1321
Born: 30 May 1265 · Died: 13 September 1321 · Age at death: 56
Dante Alighieri died aged 56. He was born on 30 May 1265 and died on 13 September 1321.
Florentine poet who wrote The Divine Comedy, the epic journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise that helped shape the Italian language
Did you know?He was exiled from his home city of Florence and spent the rest of his life travelling through Italy.
Dante Alighieri wrote the Divine Comedy, a journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise that remains one of the towering achievements of world literature. Writing in the everyday Tuscan language rather than Latin, he helped shape what would become modern Italian, earning him the title of father of the Italian language. The poem is both a spiritual quest and a fierce settling of scores, placing real politicians and popes of his day in the circles of Hell. Much of it was written in bitter exile after he was banished from his beloved Florence. Seven centuries later, his vivid images of the Inferno still influence art, films and video games.
Dante Alighieri (Italian:; most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri; c. May 1265 – September 14, 1321), widely known mononymously as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher.
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Italian poet, born c. 1265
Dante was born in Florence around 1265.
He wrote the Divine Comedy.
He was exiled from Florence in 1302.
He died in Ravenna on 14 September 1321.
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Did you know?His writing helped make the Tuscan dialect the basis of modern Italian.
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