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.

Dante's extraordinary achievement makes the vision of a self-contained universe, founded on the philosophy of his day, completely believable.

All of Dante's work, including his many discussions, assess contemporary theology and ideology comprehensively.

Dante is perhaps the greatest Italian moral philosopher and political thinker of all time.

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DANTE, Dante (or Durante) Alighieri (1265—1321), the greatest of Italian poets, was born at Florence about the middle of May 1265. He was descended from an ancient family, but from one which at any rate for several generations had belonged to the burgher and not to the knightly class. His biographers have attempted on very slight grounds to deduce his origin from the Frangipani, one of the oldest senatorial families of Rome. We can affirm with greater certainty that he was connected with the Elisei who took part in the building of Florence under Charles the Great. Dante himself does not, with ... [read entire biography]

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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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All hope abandon, ye who enter here. -- Hell. Canto iii. Line 9.

Dante Alighieri

The wretched souls of those who lived
Without or praise or blame. -- Hell. Canto iii. Line 34.

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No greater grief than to remember days
Of joy when misery is at hand. -- Hell. Canto v. Line 121.

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