Dante Alighieri

Poet & Author

(1265 – 1321) · Southern Europe

Italian poet born in Florence in 1265, author of the Divine Comedy, a three-part epic poem considered the greatest work of Italian literature and a cornerstone of Western literary tradition. Exiled from Florence in 1302 due to political conflict, he wrote much of his major work in exile. He died in Ravenna in 1321.