Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri (14 Mei/13 Juni 1265 - 13/14 Septemba 1321) alikuwa mshairi bora wa lugha ya Kiitalia, mwenyeji wa mji wa Firenze, Italia.

Anasifiwa kama baba wa lugha ya Kiitalia akiwa mwanashairi maarufu wa kwanza aliyeandika kwa lugha ya watu badala ya Kilatini cha wataalamu na wasomi. Hutazamwa pia kama mshairi muhimu zaidi wa kipindi cha zama za kati za Ulaya.

Upande wa dini, alikuwa Mkristo wa Kanisa Katoliki, tena mwanachama wa Utawa wa Tatu wa Mt. Fransisko.

Divina Commedia
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Marejeo

 Guénon, René (1925). The Esoterism of Dante, trans. by C. B. Berhill, in the Perennial Wisdom Series. Ghent, N.Y.: Sophia Perennis et Universalis, 1996. viii, 72 p. N.B.: Originally published in French, entitled L'Esoterisme de Danté, in 1925. ISBN 0-900588-02-0

External links
 "Dante Alighieri on the Web", about the Dante's life, and (complete) work.
 The Banquet (Il Convito)
 The Divine Comedy: A Study Guide about Divine Comedy
 The Divine Comedy, Italian 
 Dante Alighieri  and his Divine Comedy in English on Read Print  
 The Online Library of Liberty: Dante's Divine Comedy  Italian text with English translation, Cambridge, 1918.
 Guardian Books: small "Author Page"
 LitWeb.net: Dante Alighieri Biography 
 Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Another biography, on his works and bibliography
 The World of Dante  multimedia, texts, maps, gallery, searchable database, music, teacher resources, timeline
 The Princeton Dante Project  texts and multimedia
 The Dartmouth Dante Project searchable database of commentary
 Società Dantesca Italiana (bilingual site) manuscripts of works, images and text transcripts
 "Digital Dante" – Divine Comedy with commentary, other works, scholars on Dante
 Yale Course on Dante
 Works Italian and Latin texts, concordances and frequency lists

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