Dante alighieris biography

Italian poet, writer, and philosopher (1265–1321)

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Dante Alighieri (Italian:[ˈdantealiˈɡjɛːri]; most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri;^[a]c. May 1265 – September 14, 1321), widely known mononymously as Dante,^[b] was an Italian^[c]poet, writer, and philosopher.^[6] His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia) and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio,^[7] is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language.^[8]

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 ver