Dante
Dante Alighieri was born into an old, distinguished but impoverished family in Florence in 1265. In the middle of the road of his life he was forced into exile. He lost everything: his home, his family, his friends, his political standing. What could he do with the rest of his life? He decided to write a poem. For the next twenty years he worked on what became the most widely read poem ever written in Western Civilization: The Divine Comedy.
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- Biography
- The Inferno
- The Purgatorio
- The Paradiso
- Dante-Virgil
- Danteworlds
- Bibliography at Wikipedia
