Dante (Biography)

Born in 1265, he was the smartest man who had ever lived up till then. Known as the father of the Italian language. Master of theology, the Inferno is sensible in each concept and execution. The Divine Comedy is the masterpiece of masterpieces.
With his seriousness of purpose, his literary stature and therefore the vary — each stylistically and subjectwise — of his content, Dante before long became a cornerstone within the evolution of Italian as a longtime literary language. Dante Alighieri was additionally more aware than most earlier Italian writers of the variability of Italian dialects and of the requirement to form a literature, and a unified literary language, on the far side the bounds of Latin writing at the time; therein sense he's a forerunner of the Renaissance, with its effort to form vernacular literature in competition with earlier classical writers.
Modern authors believe he is too medieval, too rough and tragic, and not stylistically refined in the respects that the high and late Renaissance came to demand of literature, but to others, he is the greatest writer from Italy, then and now.
Category:Bios
Category:Historical Fiction