Dante Alighieri (May/June c.1265 – September 14, 1321), commonly known as Dante, was an Italian poet of the Middle Ages. He was born in Florence. He died and is buried in Ravenna. The name Dante is, according to the words of Jacopo Alighieri, a hypocorism for Durante. In contemporary documents it is followed by the patronymic Alagherii or de Alagheriis; it was Boccaccio who popularized the form Alighieri.

His Divine Comedy, originally called Commedia by the author and later nicknamed Divina by Boccaccio, is often considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.

In Italy he is known as "the Supreme Poet" (il Sommo Poeta) or just il Poeta. Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio are also known as "the three fountains" or "the three crowns". Dante is also called the "Father of the Italian language".

Durante degli Alighieri, better known as Dante, (c. 1 June 1265 – 13/14 September 1321) was an Italian Florentine poet. His greatest work, La divina commedia (The Divine Comedy), is considered as one of the greatest literary statements produced in Europe in the medieval period and it is the basis of the modern Italian language.

Contents

• 1 Sourced
  • 1.1 The Divine Comedy
    • 1.1.1 The Inferno
    • 1.1.2 Purgatorio
    • 1.1.3 Paradiso
• 2 Misattributed
• 3 Quotes about Dante
• 4 See also
• 5 References
• 6 External links

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• Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar.
  • La Vita Nuova, Chapter XXVIII (1293)

• Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me.
  • La Vita Nuova, Chapter II (1293)

• Love with delight discourses in my mind Upon my lady's admirable gifts... Beyond the range of human intellect.
  • Il Convivio, Trattato Terzo, line 1