A poet of Florence, author of the Divine Comedy, whose choice to write in the Tuscan vernacular rather than Latin did more than any other single work to establish Italian as a literary language. Exiled from Florence in 1302 on politically motivated charges after the city's ruling faction turned against him, he never returned, and the Comedy, written in exile, is shot through with the political and personal grievances of that displacement, most visibly in the poem's placement of specific named Florentines in Hell, Purgatory and Paradise according to Dante's own judgment of them.
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Dante casts Virgil as his own guide through Hell and most of Purgatory in the Divine Comedy, the clearest possible authorial acknowledgment of influence.
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1. Encyclopaedia Britannica
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.- Original Language: Italian
- Original Language: Latin
- Birth Year: 1265
- Death Year: 1321
View the Source 2. Dante Alighieri (Wikipedia)
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1321-09-14
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was an Italian poet
- Article categories: Category:Italian male poets
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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.
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Virgil (Wikipedia)
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Dante presents Virgil as his guide through Hell and the greater part of Purgatory in the Divine Comedy.
Oscar Milosz (Wikipedia)
Influenced: Oscar Milosz, Life, cosmogonic tradition DanteQuote, Influenced: Oscar Milosz, Life, cosmogonic tradition Dante
in the tradition of Lucretius, Dante, John Milton, William Blake, and Edgar Allan Poe
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