Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri (; most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri;. The name 'Dante' is understood to be a hypocorism of the name 'Durante', though no document known to survive from Dante's lifetime refers to him as 'Durante' (including his own writings). A document prepared for Dante's son Jacopo refers to "Durante, often called Dante". He may have been named for his maternal grandfather Durante degli Abati.}} – September 14, 1321), widely known mononymously as Dante, .}} was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher. His ''Divine Comedy'', originally called (modern Italian: ''Commedia'') and later christened by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language.Dante is known for establishing the use of the vernacular in literature at a time when most poetry was written in Latin, which was accessible only to educated readers. His ''De vulgari eloquentia'' (''On Eloquence in the Vernacular'') was one of the first scholarly defenses of the vernacular. His use of the Florentine dialect for works such as ''The New Life'' (1295) and ''Divine Comedy'' helped establish the modern-day standardized Italian language. By writing his poem in the Italian vernacular rather than in Latin, Dante influenced the course of literary development, making Italian the literary language in western Europe for several centuries. His work set a precedent that important Italian writers such as Petrarch and Boccaccio would later follow.
Dante was instrumental in establishing the literature of Italy, and is considered to be among the country's national poets and the Western world's greatest literary icons. His depictions of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven provided inspiration for the larger body of Western art and literature. He influenced English writers such as Geoffrey Chaucer, John Milton, and Alfred Tennyson, among many others. In addition, the first use of the interlocking three-line rhyme scheme, or the ''terza rima'', is attributed to him. He is described as the "father" of the Italian language, and in Italy he is often referred to as '''' ("the Supreme Poet"). Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio are also called the ("three crowns") of Italian literature. Provided by Wikipedia
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Purgatorio / by Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
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The Inferno of Dante by Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
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Vita nova / by Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
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La vita nuova / by Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
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Monarchy, and Three political letters. by Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
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Vita nuova / by Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
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The New life of Dante Alighieri; by Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
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The divine comedy; by Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
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Literary criticism of Dante Alighieri. by Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
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The Divine comedy. by Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
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Dante's lyric poetry by Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
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The Divine comedy of Dante Alighieri, by Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
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Dante, how to know him, by Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
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Divine comedy; by Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
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The divine comedy; a new prose translation, by Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
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Inferno. The new, annotated BBC ed., in Italian and English, by Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
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Inferno. by Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
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Dante's Rime / by Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
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Dante's Purgatory / by Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
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Literature in the vernacular / by Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
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