Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) was a Florentine statesman, poet, and philosopher who single-handedly established Italian as a literary language. Exiled from his beloved city for political reasons, he wrote his masterpiece while wandering Italy as a refugee, turning the bitterness of his banishment into universal art. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The Divine Comedy.