Dante Alighieri Biography

Durante degli Alighieri (Italian: [duˈrante deʎʎ aliˈɡjɛːri]), commonly Dante Alighieri, or simply called Dante (Italian: [ˈdante], UK: /ˈdænti/, US: /ˈdɑːnteɪ/; c. 1265 – 1321), was a major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia) and later christened Divina by Boccaccio, is widely considered the most important poem of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language.

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