Author
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)
Their life
Dante Alighieri was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher, known by the single name Dante. He was most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri, and he lived from about May 1265 until September 14, 1321. The reference does not state where he was born or where he died, so those details are not confirmed here. It does connect him to the Florentine dialect of Tuscany, which he used as his native speech in his writing.
Dante broke with the custom of his time by writing in the vernacular rather than in Latin, the language of most scholarly and literary work. His treatise *De vulgari eloquentia* (*On Eloquence in the Vernacular*) was among the first scholarly defenses of the vernacular and a major study of the troubadour tradition and its use of rhyme. His works *The New Life* (1295) and *Divine Comedy* helped shape the standardized Italian language used today, and later writers such as Petrarch and Boccaccio followed his example.
*Divine Comedy*, first called *Comedìa* and later given the name *Divina* by Boccaccio, is widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest work in Italian literature. Its descriptions of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven influenced later Western art and writing, and English writers including Geoffrey
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