![]() ![]() The rest of his life was mainly spent wandering about the north of Italy, in Verona, Bologna, Pisa, Lucca, and finally Ravenna, where he died in 1321. ![]() He saved himself by exile, and never returned to his native town. In Dante’s day politics in Florence were exciting and dangerous and after a few years of participation in public affairs he was condemned to death by his political enemies in 1302. His early education is a matter of inference, but we know that he learned the art of writing verse from the poets of France and Provence, and that after he reached manhood he devoted much time to study and became profoundly learned.Īs a young man he saw military service and he married some time before he was thirty-two. He was born in Florence in 1265, of a family noble but not wealthy. Much of the life of Dante Alighieri is obscure, and the known facts are surrounded by a haze of legend and conjecture. 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 Alighieri (Italian: ), probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to simply as Dante (/ˈdɑːnteɪ, ˈdænteɪ, ˈdænti/, also US: /ˈdɑːnti/ c. 1265 – 14 September 1321), was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. ![]()
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