Dante Alighieri
1265 - 1321
Italian poet, philosopher whose epic poem The Divine Comedy is the greatest and most influential of medieval poetry.
The Divine Comedy is a remarkable work of epic poetry that has had a profound influence on the course of world literature.
One of the greatest works of medieval literature, The Divine Comedy is a journey through hell, purgatory, and paradise; based on the poet's own experience of exile from his home, Florence.
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Essays
Evil and Sin in Dante's Inferno and Goethe's Faust: A Symbolic Comparison -- Dante and Goethe have vastly differing opinions of the nature of life, yet they agree on some important things.
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Texts
Links
Dante and Others -- Noew complete downloadable translations of Dante's works
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