Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri, considered the greatest Italian poet, was born in Florence, Italy, in 1265. He was known for establishing the use of the common language for all in literature at that time when most of  poetry was written in Latin which was only limited to most of the educated readers. He is best known for his masterpiece La Commedia (The Divine Comedy in English), which is universally considered one of greatest poems of world literature.  As per scholars, he was given formal instructions in grammar, language, and philosophy at one of the Franciscan schools in the city. His first book was the Vita Nuova (The New Life in English), published in 1294, in which he relates how he fell in love with a young girl Beatrice Portinari, daughter of Folco Portinari, at age nine, and claimed to have fallen in love with her at first sight, without even talking with her. Later writing amazing poems like Inferno, the purgatory etc, Dante near the end of his life, settled in Ravenna, Italy under the patronage of Guido da Polenta, died in September 1321.

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