Dante Alighieri
DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265–1321), Italian poet, theologian, and philosopher. Dante offered in his Commedia a "sacred poem" of enormous erudition and aesthetic power, wh...
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Dante Alighieri
1265-1321
Italian poet who in his Divine Comedy (1308-21) popularized ideas on geometry and astronomy. Perhaps the most significant literary work of the later Middle Ages, the Divine C...
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Dante Alighieri(1265–1321)
Dante Alighieri, the author of the Divine Comedy, was born in Florence of a middle-class family with some pretensions to nobility. It is likely that he frequented the...
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The Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) wrote "The Divine Comedy," the greatest poetic composition of the Christian Middle Ages and the first masterpiece of world literature written in a modern E...
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Considered the finest poet that Italy has ever produced, Dante is also celebrated as a major influence on western European culture. His masterpiece, La divina commedia (The Divine Comedy), is uni vers...
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Dante Alighieri was one of the greatest authors of the Middle Ages in Europe. He has written great works like The Divine Comedy and De Vulgari Eloquentia. Most facts of his life are found from researc...
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The Medieval and Renaissance time periods were rather different from each other. Although the public had many conflicting opinions, both time periods produced extremely talented writers. The author...
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Dante Alighieri is a poet who lived in Florence, Italy and is the author of many very important poetic works. Some of his writings include the Divine Comedy and Paridiso. The Divine Comedy is a three ...
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