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Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri (Italian: [ˈdante aliˈɡjɛːri]; c. 1265 – September 14, 1321), most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri[note 1] and often referred to as Dante (English: /ˈdɑːnt, ˈdænt, ˈdænti/,[3][4] US: /ˈdɑːnti/[5]), was an Italian[a] poet, writer, and philosopher.[7] His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia) and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio,[8] is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language.[9][10]

"Dante" redirects here. For other uses, see Dante (disambiguation).

Dante Alighieri

(1321-09-14)September 14, 1321
(aged c. 56)
Ravenna, Papal States

Statesman, poet, language theorist, political theorist

Italian
Tuscan
Latin

4, including Jacopo

Alighiero di Bellincione (father)
Bella (mother)

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 vernacular. His use of the Florentine dialect for works such as The New Life (1295) and Divine Comedy helped establish the modern-day standardized Italian language. By writing his poem in the Italian vernacular rather than in Latin, Dante influenced the course of literary development, making Italian the literary language in western Europe for several centuries.[11] His work set a precedent that important Italian writers such as Petrarch and Boccaccio would later follow.


Dante was instrumental in establishing the literature of Italy, and is considered to be among the country's national poets and the Western world's greatest literary icons.[12] His depictions of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven provided inspiration for the larger body of Western art and literature.[13][14] He influenced English writers such as Geoffrey Chaucer, John Milton, and Alfred Tennyson, among many others. In addition, the first use of the interlocking three-line rhyme scheme, or the terza rima, is attributed to him. He is described as the "father" of the Italian language,[15] and in Italy he is often referred to as il Sommo Poeta ("the Supreme Poet"). Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio are also called the tre corone ("three crowns") of Italian literature.

Il Fiore and Detto d'Amore ("The Flower" and "Tale of Love", 1283–87)

("The New Life", 1294)

La Vita Nuova

("On the Eloquence in the Vernacular", 1302–05)

De vulgari eloquentia

("The Banquet", 1307)

Convivio

("Monarchy", 1313)

Monarchia

("Divine Comedy", 1320)

Divina Commedia

(1320)

Eclogues

Quaestio de aqua et terra ("A Question of the Water and of the Land", 1320)

("The Rhymes")

Le Rime

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Works by Dante Alighieri in eBook form

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Works by Dante Alighieri

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Works by or about Dante Alighieri

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Works by Dante Alighieri

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Dante Alighieri

at One More Library (Works in English, Italian, Latin, Arabic, German, French and Spanish)

Works by Dante Alighieri

Wetherbee, Winthrop. . In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

"Dante Alighieri"

The : his life, his books and a history & literature blog about Dante

Dante Museum in Florence

The multimedia, texts, maps, gallery, searchable database, music, teacher resources, timeline

World of Dante

The Archived June 3, 2009, at the Wayback Machine texts and multimedia

Princeton Dante Project

The searchable database of commentary

Dartmouth Dante Project

manuscripts of works, images and text transcripts by Società Dantesca Italiana

Dante Online

Divine Comedy with commentary, other works, scholars on Dante

Digital Dante

by Yale University

Open Yale Course on Dante

project about Dante's primary sources developed by ISTI-CNR and the University of Pisa

DanteSources

Italian and Latin texts, concordances and frequency lists by IntraText

Works

Archived January 11, 2018, at the Wayback Machine citings and sightings of Dante in contemporary culture

Dante Today

journal dedicated to Dante and his reception

Bibliotheca Dantesca

at University College London (c. 3000 volumes of works by and about Dante)

Dante Collection