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Dante Alighieri

1265 - 1321

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Dante Alighieri (Italian: [ˈdante aliˈɡjɛːri]; most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri; c. May 1265 – September 14, 1321), widely known mononymously as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia) and later christened Divina 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 chose to write in the vernacular, specifically, his own Tuscan dialect, at a time when much literature was still written in Latin, which was accessible only to educated readers, and many of his fellow Italian poets wrote in French or Provençal. His De vulgari eloquentia (On Eloquence in the Vernacular) was one of the first scholarly defenses of the vernacular. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dante Alighieri is the 4th most popular writer (down from 2nd in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Italy and the most popular Italian Writer.

Dante Alighieri is most famous for writing the Divine Comedy, a three-part epic poem that tells the story of Dante's journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven.

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Among writers, Dante Alighieri ranks 4 out of 7,302Before him are Homer, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and William Shakespeare. After him are Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, J. R. R. Tolkien, Edgar Allan Poe, Hans Christian Andersen, Leo Tolstoy, Franz Kafka, Victor Hugo, and Voltaire.

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Among people born in 1265, Dante Alighieri ranks 1After him are Temür Khan, Duns Scotus, Beatrice Portinari, Andrew III of Hungary, Alfonso III of Aragon, Henry of Bohemia, Emperor Fushimi, Ramon Muntaner, Otto III, Duke of Carinthia, Lucia, Countess of Tripoli, and María de Molina. Among people deceased in 1321, Dante Alighieri ranks 1After him are Yunus Emre, Stefan Milutin, Birger, King of Sweden, Matthew III Csák, María de Molina, and Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushi.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Dante Alighieri ranks 8 out of 5,161Before him are Marco Polo (1254), Galileo Galilei (1564), Christopher Columbus (1451), Julius Caesar (-100), Michelangelo (1475), and Archimedes (-287). After him are Augustus (-63), Antonio Vivaldi (1678), Raphael (1483), Niccolò Machiavelli (1469), Pope John Paul I (1912), and Commodus (161).

Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Dante Alighieri ranks 1After him are Virgil (-70), Ovid (-43), Petrarch (1304), Giovanni Boccaccio (1313), Horace (-65), Umberto Eco (1932), Giacomo Casanova (1725), Giorgio Vasari (1511), Cato the Elder (-243), Carlo Collodi (1826), and Plautus (-254).