Dante Alighieri
Comedian
life
Dante was born in Florence, Italy. The exact date of birth is unknown, although it is generally believed to be around 1265.At the age of 9 he met for the first time the eight-year-old Beatrice Portinari, who became in effect his Muse, and remained, after her death in 1290, the central inspiration for his major poems. Between 1285, when he married and began a family.
The Divine Comedy
It is widely considered the preeminent work of Italian literature,and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature.The poem's imaginative and allegorical vision of the afterlife is a culmination of the medieval world-view as it had developed in the Western Church. It helped establish the Tuscan dialect, in which it is written, as the standardized Italian language.it is divided into three parts