Dante Alighieri, La Divina Comedia (detail)
Dante, posed between the mountain of purgatory and the city of Florence, displays the incipit "Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita" in a detail of Domenico di Michelino's painting, Florence, 1465.
Dante Alighieri, baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri (c. 1265 – 14 September 1321), was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa 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, La Divina Comedia (detail)
Dante, posed between the mountain of purgatory and the city of Florence, displays the incipit "Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita" in a detail of Domenico di Michelino's painting, Florence, 1465.
Dante Alighieri, baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri (c. 1265 – 14 September 1321), was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa 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.