Dante Alighieri - wikipedia Dante Alighieri Italian poet `` Dante '' redirects here. For other uses, see Dante ( disambiguation ). Dante Alighieri Profile portrait in tempera by Sandro Botticelli, 1495 c. 1265 Florence, Republic of Florence September 13 / 14, 1321 ( aged c. 56 ) Ravenna, Papal States Occupation Statesman, poet, language theorist, political theorist Nationality Italian Period Late Middle Ages Literary movement Dolce Stil Novo Durante degli Alighieri ( Italian : ( duˈrante deʎʎ aliˈɡjɛːri ) ), commonly known as Dante Alighieri or simply Dante ( Italian : ( ˈdante ), UK : / ˈdænti /, US : / ˈdɑːnteɪ / ; c. 1265 -- 1321 ), was a major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa ( modern Italian : Commedia ) and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered the most important poem of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language. In the late Middle Ages, most poetry was written in Latin, accessible only to the most educated readers. In De vulgari eloquentia ( On Eloquence in the Vernacular ), however, Dante defended use of the vernacular in literature. He would even write in the Tuscan dialect for works such as The New Life ( 1295 ) and the Divine Comedy ; this highly unorthodox choice set a precedent that important later Italian writers such as Petrarch and Boccaccio would follow. Dante was instrumental in establishing the literature of Italy, and his depictions of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven provided inspiration for the larger body of Western art. He is cited as an influence on John Milton, Geoffrey Chaucer and Alfred Tennyson, among many others. In addition, the first use of the interlocking three - line rhyme scheme, or the terza rima, is attributed to him. In Italy, he is often referred to as il Sommo Poeta ( `` the Supreme Poet '' ) and il Poeta ; he, Petrarch, and Boccaccio are also called `` the three fountains '' or `` the three crowns ''. Contents 1 Life 1.1 Early life 1.2 Education and poetry 1.3 Florence and politics 1.4 Exile and death 2 Legacy 3 Works 4 Notes 5 References 6 External links Life Early life Dante was born in Florence, Republic of Florence, present - day Italy. The exact date of his birth is unknown, although it is generally believed to be around 1265. This can be deduced from autobiographic allusions in the Divine Comedy. Its first section, the Inferno, begins, `` Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita '' ( `` Midway upon the journey of our life '' ), implying that Dante was around 35 years old, since the average lifespan according to the Bible ( Psalm 89 : 10, Vulgate ) is 70 years ; and since his imaginary travel to the nether world took place in 1300, he was most probably born around 1265. Some verses of the Paradiso section of the Divine Comedy also provide a possible clue that he was born under the sign of Gemini : `` As I revolved with the eternal twins, I saw revealed, from hills to river outlets, the threshing - floor that makes us so ferocious '' ( XXII 151 -- 154 ). In 1265, the sun was in Gemini between approximately May 11 and June 11 ( Julian calendar ). Giovanni Boccaccio described Dante 's appearance and demeanor as follows : `` the poet was of middle height, and in his later years he walked somewhat bent over, with a grave and gentle gait. He was clad always in most seemly attire, such as befitted his ripe years. His face was long, his nose aquiline, and his eyes big rather than small. His jaws were large, and his lower lip protruded. He had a brown complexion, his hair and beard were thick, black, and curly, and his countenance was always melancholy and thoughtful. '' Portrait of Dante, from a fresco in the Palazzo dei Giudici, Florence Dante claimed that his family descended from the ancient Romans ( Inferno, XV, 76 ), but the earliest relative he could mention by name was Cacciaguida degli Elisei ( Paradiso, XV, 135 ), born no earlier than about 1100. Dante 's father, Alaghiero or Alighiero di Bellincione, was a White Guelph who suffered no reprisals after the Ghibellines won the Battle of Montaperti in the middle of the 13th century. This suggests that Alighiero or his family may have enjoyed some protective prestige and status, although some suggest that the politically inactive Alighiero was of such low standing that he was not considered worth exiling. Dante 's family was loyal to the Guelphs, a political alliance that supported the Papacy and which was involved in complex opposition to the Ghibellines, who were backed by the Holy Roman Emperor. The poet 's mother was Bella, likely a member of the Abati family. She died when Dante was not yet ten years old, and Alighiero soon married again, to Lapa di Chiarissimo Cialuffi. It is uncertain whether he really married her, since widowers were socially limited in such matters, but this woman definitely bore him two children, Dante 's half - brother Francesco and half - sister Tana ( Gaetana ). When Dante was 12, he was promised in marriage to Gemma di Manetto Donati, daughter of Manetto Donati, member of the powerful Donati family. Contracting marriages at this early age was quite common and involved a formal ceremony, including contracts signed before a notary. But by this time Dante had fallen in love with another, Beatrice Portinari ( known also as Biceps ), whom he first met when he was only nine. Years after his marriage to Gemma he claims to have met Beatrice again ; he wrote several sonnets to Beatrice but never mentioned Gemma in any of his poems. The exact date of his marriage is not known : the only certain information is that, before his exile in 1301, he had three children ( Pietro, Jacopo and Antonia ). Dante in Verona, by Antonio Cotti Dante fought with the Guelph cavalry at the Battle of Campaldino ( June 11, 1289 ). This victory brought about a reformation of the Florentine constitution. To take any part in public life, one had to enroll in one of the city 's many commercial or artisan guilds, so Dante entered the Physicians ' and Apothecaries ' Guild. In the following years, his name is occasionally recorded as speaking or voting in the various councils of the republic. A substantial portion of minutes from such meetings in the years 1298 -- 1300 was lost, however, so the true extent of Dante 's participation in the city 's councils is uncertain. Gemma bore Dante several children. Although several others subsequently claimed to be his offspring, it is likely that only Jacopo, Pietro, Giovanni, and Antonia were his actual children. Antonia later became a nun, taking the name Sister Beatrice. Education and poetry This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( December 2015 ) Not much is known about Dante 's education ; he presumably studied at home or in a chapter school attached to a church or monastery in Florence. It is known that he studied Tuscan poetry and that he admired the compositions of the Bolognese poet Guido Guinizelli -- whom in Purgatorio XXVI he characterized as his `` father '' -- at a time when the Sicilian school ( Scuola poetica Siciliana ), a cultural group from Sicily, was becoming known in Tuscany. His interests brought him to discover the Provençal poetry of the troubadours, such as Arnaut Daniel, and the Latin writers of classical antiquity, including Cicero, Ovid and especially Virgil. Statue of Dante at the Uffizi, Florence Dante said he first met Beatrice Portinari, daughter of Folco Portinari, at age nine, and claimed to have fallen in love with her `` at first sight '', apparently without even talking with her. He saw her frequently after age 18, often exchanging greetings in the street, but never knew her well. In effect, he set an example of so - called courtly love, a phenomenon developed in French and Provençal poetry of prior centuries. Dante 's experience of such love was typical, but his expression of it was unique. It was in the name of this love that Dante left his imprint on the dolce stil novo ( sweet new style, a term which Dante himself coined ), and he would join other contemporary poets and writers in exploring never - before - emphasized aspects of love ( Amore ). Love for Beatrice ( as Petrarch would show for Laura somewhat differently ) would be his reason for poetry and for living, together with political passions. In many of his poems, she is depicted as semi-divine, watching over him constantly and providing spiritual instruction, sometimes harshly. When Beatrice died in 1290, Dante sought refuge in Latin literature. The Convivio chronicles his having read Boethius 's De consolatione philosophiae and Cicero 's De Amicitia. He then dedicated himself to philosophical studies at religious schools like the Dominican one in Santa Maria Novella. He took part in the disputes that the two principal mendicant orders ( Franciscan and Dominican ) publicly or indirectly held in Florence, the former explaining the doctrines of the mystics and of St. Bonaventure, the latter expounding on the theories of St. Thomas Aquinas. At 18, Dante met Guido Cavalcanti, Lapo Gianni, Cino da Pistoia and soon after Brunetto Latini ; together they became the leaders of the dolce stil novo. Brunetto later received special mention in the Divine Comedy ( Inferno, XV, 28 ) for what he had taught Dante : Nor speaking less on that account I go With Ser Brunetto, and I ask who are his most known and most eminent companions. Some fifty poetical commentaries by Dante are known ( the so - called Rime, rhymes ), others being included in the later Vita Nuova and Convivio. Other studies are reported, or deduced from Vita Nuova or the Comedy, regarding painting and music. Illustration for Purgatory ( Purgatorio ) by Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré Illustration for Paradiso ( of The Divine Comedy ) by Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré Illustration for Paradiso ( of The Divine Comedy ) by Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré Florence and politics This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( December 2015 ) Further information : Guelphs and Ghibellines Dante, like most Florentines of his day, was embroiled in the Guelph -- Ghibelline conflict. He fought in the Battle of Campaldino ( June 11, 1289 ), with the Florentine Guelphs against Arezzo Ghibellines ; then in 1294 he was among the escorts of Charles Martel of Anjou ( grandson of Charles I of Naples, more commonly called Charles of Anjou ) while he was in Florence. To further his political career, he became a pharmacist. He did not intend to practice as one, but a law issued in 1295 required nobles aspiring to public office to be enrolled in one of the Corporazioni delle Arti e dei Mestieri, so Dante obtained admission to the Apothecaries ' Guild. This profession was not inappropriate since at that time books were sold from apothecaries ' shops. As a politician, he accomplished little but held various offices over some years in a city rife with political unrest. Dante Alighieri, detail from Luca Signorelli 's fresco, Chapel of San Brizio, Orvieto Cathedral After defeating the Ghibellines, the Guelphs divided into two factions : the White Guelphs ( Guelfi Bianchi ) -- Dante 's party, led by Vieri dei Cerchi -- and the Black Guelphs ( Guelfi Neri ), led by Corso Donati. Although the split was along family lines at first, ideological differences arose based on opposing views of the papal role in Florentine affairs, with the Blacks supporting the Pope and the Whites wanting more freedom from Rome. The Whites took power first and expelled the Blacks. In response, Pope Boniface VIII planned a military occupation of Florence. In 1301, Charles of Valois, brother of King Philip IV of France, was expected to visit Florence because the Pope had appointed him peacemaker for Tuscany. But the city 's government had treated the Pope 's ambassadors badly a few weeks before, seeking independence from papal influence. It was believed that Charles had received other unofficial instructions, so the council sent a delegation to Rome to ascertain the Pope 's intentions. Dante was one of the delegates. Exile and death Pope Boniface quickly dismissed the other delegates and asked Dante alone to remain in Rome. At the same time ( November 1, 1301 ), Charles of Valois entered Florence with the Black Guelphs, who in the next six days destroyed much of the city and killed many of their enemies. A new Black Guelph government was installed, and Cante de ' Gabrielli da Gubbio was appointed podestà of the city. In March 1302, Dante, a White Guelph by affiliation, along with the Gherardini family, was condemned to exile for two years and ordered to pay a large fine. Dante was accused of corruption and financial wrongdoing by the Black Guelphs for the time that Dante was serving as city prior ( Florence 's highest position ) for two months in 1300. The poet was still in Rome in 1302 where the Pope, who had backed the Black Guelphs, had `` suggested '' that Dante stay. Florence under the Black Guelphs therefore considered Dante an absconder. Dante did not pay the fine, in part because he believed he was not guilty and in part because all his assets in Florence had been seized by the Black Guelphs. He was condemned to perpetual exile ; if he returned to Florence without paying the fine, he could have been burned at the stake. ( In June 2008, nearly seven centuries after his death, the city council of Florence passed a motion rescinding Dante 's sentence. ) A recreated death mask of Dante Alighieri in Palazzo Vecchio, Florence Dante 's tomb exterior and interior in Ravenna, built in 1780 He took part in several attempts by the White Guelphs to regain power, but these failed due to treachery. Dante, bitter at the treatment he received from his enemies, also grew disgusted with the infighting and ineffectiveness of his erstwhile allies and vowed to become a party of one. He went to Verona as a guest of Bartolomeo I della Scala, then moved to Sarzana in Liguria. Later he is supposed to have lived in Lucca with a woman called Gentucca, who made his stay comfortable ( and was later gratefully mentioned in Purgatorio, XXIV, 37 ). Some speculative sources claim he visited Paris between 1308 and 1310, and other sources even less trustworthy took him to Oxford : these claims, first occurring in Boccaccio 's book on Dante several decades after his death, seem inspired by readers who were impressed with the poet 's wide learning and erudition. Evidently, Dante 's command of philosophy and his literary interests deepened in exile and when he was no longer busy with the day - to - day business of Florentine domestic politics, and this is evidenced in his prose writings in this period, but there is no real evidence that he ever left Italy. Dante 's Immensa Dei dilectione testante to Henry VII of Luxembourg confirms his residence `` beneath the springs of Arno, near Tuscany '' in March 1311. In 1310, Holy Roman Emperor Henry VII of Luxembourg marched into Italy at the head of 5,000 troops. Dante saw in him a new Charlemagne who would restore the office of the Holy Roman Emperor to its former glory and also retake Florence from the Black Guelphs. He wrote to Henry and several Italian princes, demanding that they destroy the Black Guelphs. Mixing religion and private concerns in his writings, he invoked the worst anger of God against his city and suggested several particular targets that were also his personal enemies. It was during this time that he wrote De Monarchia, proposing a universal monarchy under Henry VII. Statue of Dante in the Piazza Santa Croce in Florence, Enrico Pazzi, 1865 At some point during his exile, he conceived of the Comedy, but the date is uncertain. The work is much more assured and on a larger scale than anything he had produced in Florence ; it is likely he would have undertaken such a work only after he realized his political ambitions, which had been central to him up to his banishment, had been halted for some time, possibly forever. It is also noticeable that Beatrice has returned to his imagination with renewed force and with a wider meaning than in the Vita Nuova ; in Convivio ( written c. 1304 -- 07 ) he had declared that the memory of this youthful romance belonged to the past. An early outside indication that the poem was underway is a notice by Francesco da Barberino, tucked into his Documenti d'Amore ( Lessons of Love ), written probably in 1314 or early 1315. Speaking of Virgil, Francesco notes in appreciative words that Dante followed the Roman classic in a poem called `` Comedy '' and that the setting of this poem ( or part of it ) was the underworld ; i.e., hell. The brief note gives no incontestable indication that he himself had seen or read even the Inferno or that this part had been published at the time, but it indicates composition was well underway and that the sketching of the poem might have begun some years before. ( It has been suggested that a knowledge of Dante 's work also underlies some of the illuminations in Francesco da Barberino 's earlier Officiolum ( c. 1305 -- 08 ), a manuscript that came to light only in 2003. ) We know that the Inferno had been published by 1317 ; this is established by quoted lines interspersed in the margins of contemporary dated records from Bologna, but there is no certainty as to whether the three parts of the poem were each published in full or, rather, a few cantos at a time. Paradiso seems to have been published posthumously. In Florence, Baldo d'Aguglione pardoned most of the White Guelphs in exile and allowed them to return. However, Dante had gone too far in his violent letters to Arrigo ( Henry VII ) and his sentence was not revoked. In 1312 Henry assaulted Florence and defeated the Black Guelphs, but there is no evidence that Dante was involved. Some say he refused to participate in the assault on his city by a foreigner ; others suggest that he had become unpopular with the White Guelphs, too, and that any trace of his passage had carefully been removed. Henry VII died ( from a fever ) in 1313, and with him any hope for Dante to see Florence again. He returned to Verona, where Cangrande I della Scala allowed him to live in certain security and, presumably, in a fair degree of prosperity. Cangrande was admitted to Dante 's Paradise ( Paradiso, XVII, 76 ). During the period of his exile Dante corresponded with Dominican theologian Fr. Nicholas Brunacci OP ( 1240 -- 1322 ) who had been a student of Thomas Aquinas at the Santa Sabina studium in Rome, and later at Paris. and of Albert the Great at the Cologne studium. Brunacci became lector at the Santa Sabina studium, forerunner of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, and later served in the papal curia. In 1315, Florence was forced by Uguccione della Faggiuola ( the military officer controlling the town ) to grant an amnesty to those in exile, including Dante. But for this, Florence required public penance in addition to a heavy fine. Dante refused, preferring to remain in exile. When Uguccione defeated Florence, Dante 's death sentence was commuted to house arrest on condition that he go to Florence to swear he would never enter the town again. He refused to go, and his death sentence was confirmed and extended to his sons. He still hoped late in life that he might be invited back to Florence on honorable terms. For Dante, exile was nearly a form of death, stripping him of much of his identity and his heritage. He addressed the pain of exile in Paradiso, XVII ( 55 -- 60 ), where Cacciaguida, his great - great - grandfather, warns him what to expect : Mural of Dante in the Uffizi Gallery, by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450... Tu lascerai ogne cosa diletta più caramente ; e questo è quello strale che l'arco de lo essilio pria saetta. Tu proverai sì come sa di sale lo pane altrui, e come è duro calle lo scendere e ' l salir per l'altrui scale...... You shall leave everything you love most : this is the arrow that the bow of exile shoots first. You are to know the bitter taste of others ' bread, how salty it is, and know how hard a path it is for one who goes ascending and descending others ' stairs... As for the hope of returning to Florence, he describes it as if he had already accepted its impossibility ( in Paradiso, XXV, 1 -- 9 ) : Se mai continga che ' l poema sacro al quale ha posto mano e cielo e terra, sì che m'ha fatto per molti anni macro, vinca la crudeltà che fuor mi serra del bello ovile ov'io dormi ' agnello, nimico ai lupi che li danno guerra ; con altra voce omai, con altro vello ritornerò poeta, e in sul fonte del mio battesmo prenderò ' l cappello... If it ever comes to pass that the sacred poem to which both heaven and earth have set their hand so as to have made me lean for many years should overcome the cruelty that bars me from the fair sheepfold where I slept as a lamb, an enemy to the wolves that make war on it, with another voice now and other fleece I shall return a poet and at the font of my baptism take the laurel crown... Alighieri accepted Prince Guido Novello da Polenta 's invitation to Ravenna in 1318. He finished Paradiso, and died in 1321 ( aged 56 ) while returning to Ravenna from a diplomatic mission to Venice, possibly of malaria contracted there. He was buried in Ravenna at the Church of San Pier Maggiore ( later called San Francesco ). Bernardo Bembo, praetor of Venice, erected a tomb for him in 1483. Cenotaph in Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence On the grave, some verses of Bernardo Canaccio, a friend of Dante, dedicated to Florence : parvi Florentia mater amoris Florence, mother of little love Legacy See also : Tomb of Dante The first formal biography of Dante was the Vita di Dante ( also known as Trattatello in laude di Dante ), written after 1348 by Giovanni Boccaccio ; Although several statements and episodes of it have been deemed unreliable on the basis of modern research, an earlier account of Dante 's life and works had been included in the Nuova Cronica of the Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani. Florence eventually came to regret Dante 's exile, and the city made repeated requests for the return of his remains. The custodians of the body in Ravenna refused, at one point going so far as to conceal the bones in a false wall of the monastery. Nonetheless, a tomb was built for him in Florence in 1829, in the Basilica of Santa Croce. That tomb has been empty ever since, with Dante 's body remaining in Ravenna, far from the land he had loved so dearly. The front of his tomb in Florence reads Onorate l'altissimo poeta -- which roughly translates as `` Honor the most exalted poet ''. The phrase is a quote from the fourth canto of the Inferno, depicting Virgil 's welcome as he returns among the great ancient poets spending eternity in limbo. The ensuing line, L'ombra sua torna, ch'era dipartita ( `` his spirit, which had left us, returns '' ), is poignantly absent from the empty tomb. Italy 's first dreadnought battleship was completed in 1913 and named Dante Alighieri in honor of him. On April 30, 1921, in honor of the 600th anniversary of Dante 's death, Pope Benedict XV promulgated an encyclical named In praeclara summorum, calling him one `` of the many celebrated geniuses of whom the Catholic faith can boast '' and the `` pride and glory of humanity ''. In 2007, a reconstruction of Dante 's face was undertaken in a collaborative project. Artists from Pisa University and engineers at the University of Bologna at Forlì constructed the model, portraying Dante 's features as somewhat different from what was once thought. In 2008, the Municipality of Florence officially apologized for expelling Dante 700 years earlier. A celebration was held in 2015 for the 750th anniversary of his birth. Works See also : Category : Works by Dante Alighieri Divina Commedia ( 1472 ) The Divine Comedy describes Dante 's journey through Hell ( Inferno ), Purgatory ( Purgatorio ), and Paradise ( Paradiso ) ; he is first guided by the Roman poet Virgil and then by Beatrice, the subject of his love ( and of another of his works, La Vita Nuova ). While the vision of Hell, the Inferno, is vivid for most modern readers, the theological niceties presented in the other books require a certain amount of patience and knowledge to appreciate. Purgatorio is arguably the most lyrical of the three, referencing more contemporary poets and artists than Inferno ; Paradiso is the most heavily theological, and the one in which, many scholars have argued, the Divine Comedy 's most beautiful and mystic passages appear ( e.g., when Dante looks into the face of God : `` all'alta fantasia qui mancò possa '' -- `` at this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe, '' Paradiso, XXXIII, 142 ). Dante, poised between the mountain of purgatory and the city of Florence, displays the incipit Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita in a detail of Domenico di Michelino 's painting, Florence, 1465. With its seriousness of purpose, its literary stature and the range -- both stylistic and thematic -- of its content, the Comedy soon became a cornerstone in the evolution of Italian as an established literary language. Dante was more aware than most early Italian writers of the variety of Italian dialects and of the need to create a literature and a unified literary language beyond the limits of Latin writing at the time ; in that sense, he is a forerunner of the Renaissance, with its effort to create vernacular literature in competition with earlier classical writers. Dante 's in - depth knowledge ( within the limits of his time ) of Roman antiquity, and his evident admiration for some aspects of pagan Rome, also point forward to the 15th century. Ironically, while he was widely honored in the centuries after his death, the Comedy slipped out of fashion among men of letters : too medieval, too rough and tragic, and not stylistically refined in the respects that the high and late Renaissance came to demand of literature. He wrote the Comedy in a language he called `` Italian '', in some sense an amalgamated literary language mostly based on the regional dialect of Tuscany, but with some elements of Latin and other regional dialects. He deliberately aimed to reach a readership throughout Italy including laymen, clergymen and other poets. By creating a poem of epic structure and philosophic purpose, he established that the Italian language was suitable for the highest sort of expression. In French, Italian is sometimes nicknamed la langue de Dante. Publishing in the vernacular language marked Dante as one of the first in Roman Catholic Western Europe ( among others such as Geoffrey Chaucer and Giovanni Boccaccio ) to break free from standards of publishing in only Latin ( the language of liturgy, history and scholarship in general, but often also of lyric poetry ). This break set a precedent and allowed more literature to be published for a wider audience, setting the stage for greater levels of literacy in the future. However, unlike Boccaccio, Milton or Ariosto, Dante did not really become an author read all over Europe until the Romantic era. To the Romantics, Dante, like Homer and Shakespeare, was a prime example of the `` original genius '' who sets his own rules, creates persons of overpowering stature and depth, and goes far beyond any imitation of the patterns of earlier masters ; and who, in turn, can not truly be imitated. Throughout the 19th century, Dante 's reputation grew and solidified ; and by 1865, the 600th anniversary of his birth, he had become established as one of the greatest literary icons of the Western world. Dante Alighieri, attributed to Giotto, in the chapel of the Bargello palace in Florence. This oldest picture of Dante was painted just prior to his exile and has since been heavily restored. New readers often wonder how such a serious work may be called a `` comedy ''. In the classical sense the word comedy refers to works which reflect belief in an ordered universe, in which events tend toward not only a happy or amusing ending but one influenced by a Providential will that orders all things to an ultimate good. By this meaning of the word, as Dante himself wrote in a letter to Cangrande I della Scala, the progression of the pilgrimage from Hell to Paradise is the paradigmatic expression of comedy, since the work begins with the pilgrim 's moral confusion and ends with the vision of God. Statue of Dante Alighieri in Verona Dante 's other works include Convivio ( `` The Banquet '' ), a collection of his longest poems with an ( unfinished ) allegorical commentary ; Monarchia, a summary treatise of political philosophy in Latin which was condemned and burned after Dante 's death by the Papal Legate Bertrando del Poggetto, which argues for the necessity of a universal or global monarchy in order to establish universal peace in this life, and this monarchy 's relationship to the Roman Catholic Church as guide to eternal peace ; De vulgari eloquentia ( `` On the Eloquence of Vernacular '' ), on vernacular literature, partly inspired by the Razos de trobar of Raimon Vidal de Bezaudun ; and La Vita Nuova ( `` The New Life '' ), the story of his love for Beatrice Portinari, who also served as the ultimate symbol of salvation in the Comedy. The Vita Nuova contains many of Dante 's love poems in Tuscan, which was not unprecedented ; the vernacular had been regularly used for lyric works before, during all the thirteenth century. However, Dante 's commentary on his own work is also in the vernacular -- both in the Vita Nuova and in the Convivio -- instead of the Latin that was almost universally used. References to Divina Commedia are in the format ( book, canto, verse ), e.g., ( Inferno, XV, 76 ). Notes Jump up ^ Bloom, Harold ( 1994 ). The Western Canon. Jump up ^ Shaw, Prue ( 2014 ). Reading Dante : From Here to Eternity. New York : Liveright Publishign Corporation. pp. Introduction. ISBN 9780871407429. Jump up ^ Haller, Elizabeth K. ( 2012 ). `` Dante Alighieri ''. In Matheson, Lister M. Icons of the Middle Ages : Rulers, Writers, Rebels, and Saints. 1. Santa Barbara, CA : Greenwood. p. 244. ISBN 978 - 0 - 313 - 34080 - 2. Jump up ^ A., Murray, Charles ( 2003 ). Human accomplishment : the pursuit of excellence in the arts and sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 ( 1st ed. ). New York : HarperCollins. ISBN 9780060192471. OCLC 52047270. Jump up ^ His birth date is listed as `` probably in the end of May '' by Robert Hollander in `` Dante '' in Dictionary of the Middle Ages, volume 4. According to Boccaccio, the poet himself said he was born in May. See `` Alighieri, Dante '' in the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Jump up ^ Holbrook, Richard. `` Portraits of Dante from Giotto to Raffael : a critical study, with a concise iconography ''. 1911. London : P.L. Warner ; Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin company. Page 16. ^ Jump up to : Chimenz, S.A. Alighieri, Dante. Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani ( in Italian ). Enciclopedia Italiana. Retrieved 2016 - 03 - 07. Jump up ^ Santagata, Marco ( 2012 ). Dante : Il romanzo della sua vita. Milan : Mondadori. p. 21. ISBN 978 - 8804620266. ^ Jump up to : Davenport, John ( 2005 ). 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Question: who was dante what is he most famous for writing
Answer: a major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages