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Dante Alighieri (Italian: [ˈdante aliˈɡjɛːri]; c. May 1265 – September 14, 1321), most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and widely known and often referred to in English mononymously as Dante (English: / ˈ d ɑː n t eɪ, ˈ d æ n t eɪ, ˈ d æ n t i /, US: / ˈ d ɑː n t i /), was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher. His Divine Comedy, originally called ...
Dante Alighieri was an Italian poet, prose writer, literary theorist, moral philosopher, and political thinker. He is best known for the monumental epic poem La commedia, later named La divina commedia (The Divine Comedy).
Italian poet and scholar Dante Alighieri is best known for his masterpiece La Commedia (known in English as The Divine Comedy), which is universally considered one of world literature’s greatest poems. Divided into three sections—Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso—The Divine Comedy presents an encyclopedic overview of the mores, attitudes, beliefs, philosophies, aspirations, and material ...
Jan 29, 2001 · Bibliography Primary Sources and Translations. Alighieri, Dante, La Commedia secondo l’antica vulgata, ed. Giorgio Petrocchi, Florence: Le Lettere, 1994. –––, The Divine Comedy, trans. Charles Singleton, 6 vols., Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970–75.Clear prose facing-page translation, along with commentary volumes that quote generously from Thomas Aquinas and others.
Oct 12, 2020 · Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) was an Italian poet and politician most famous for his Divine Comedy (c. 1319) where he descends through Hell, climbs Purgatory, and arrives at the illumination of Paradise. Dante meets many historical characters along the way, including his guide, the Roman poet Virgil (70-19 BCE). It is considered one of the greatest works of medieval literature.
Aug 9, 2023 · Dante was a Medieval Italian poet and philosopher whose poetic trilogy, 'The Divine Comedy,' made an indelible impression on both literature and theology.
Dante (Alighieri) , (born c. May 21–June 20, 1265, Florence—died Sept. 13/14, 1321, Ravenna), Italian poet. Dante was of noble ancestry, and his life was shaped by the conflict between papal and imperial partisans (the Guelfs and Ghibellines).When an opposing political faction within the Guelfs (Dante’s party) gained ascendancy, he was exiled (1302) from Florence, to which he never returned.
The poem begins with Dante at midlife—specifically, 35 years old—and lost inside a dark wood. He is guided by the Roman poet Virgil, who represents the epitome of human knowledge, from the dark wood through the descending nine circles of the pit of Hell (Inferno). Each circle represents one or more specific sins and is populated by various demons and mythical beasts and by people who are ...
The Divine Comedy (Italian: Divina Commedia [diˈviːna komˈmɛːdja]) is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed around 1321, shortly before the author's death. It is widely considered the pre-eminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of Western literature.The poem's imaginative vision of the afterlife is representative of the medieval ...
Dante Alighieri was born in Florence in 1265 (probably in the latter part of May), in the quarter of San Martino al Vescovo. Judging from his allusions in the D. C. and from the position of their house in the heart of the city, the Alighieri would seem to have been a family of modest means. They belonged to the Guelph party; the poet has Farinata affirm that D.'s ancestors were fierce ...
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