Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) was an Italian poet and the author of the Divine Comedy, widely considered the greatest literary work of the medieval period and one of the greatest of all time. A Florentine exile, he wrote in the vernacular Italian, founding modern literary Italian.
The Divine Comedy synthesized medieval theology, philosophy, and political thought into a supreme literary achievement; founded literary Italian.
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