Dante

Durante di Alighiero was a philosopher, poet, and political theorist. Dante, also known as Degil Alighieri, is regarded as the founder of modern literature in Italy. He was born in 1265 into a family with a long history of involvement in the Florentine political rebellion, which served as the inspiration for his epic poem La Commedia, often known as The Divine Comedy.

His work is laudable, and historians from all over the world have credited it to having several underlying levels. Allegorical speaking, it is a poetry that transports the audience to a place beyond worldly bounds, including hell, purgatory, and paradise. The poem's center, however, contains figments of Christian philosophy exploring the enigmatic realms of the afterlife. Another theory holds that he was inspired to write this epic by his own experience of exile in Florence. In spite of this, it is regarded as the greatest work of art due to the abundance of imaginative expression.

It is written in his own tongue rather than Latin, which let Italian literature and semantics grow and became the dominant literary language in western Europe for many years.

Born: May 21 - June 20, 1265

Died: September 13, 1321 or September 14, 132

Notable Works: “Literature in the Vernacular”; “La vita nuova”; “The Banquet”; “The Divine Comedy”