Dante Alighieri
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Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate.
— Abandon all hope, you who enter here.
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)
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Lived 1265–1321, aged 56
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He wrote a poem about walking through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven — and it became the blueprint for how the West imagines the afterlife. Seven centuries later, the Divine Comedy still shapes art, literature, and the popular picture of damnation.
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Born around May 1265, Dante Alighieri came of age in Florence when Latin still ruled the page and Italian poets borrowed from France. He broke both habits: he wrote in Tuscan, the vernacular of his city, and defended it in De vulgari eloquentia as fit for serious work. The New Life appeared in 1295; the Divine Comedy followed, a journey through the three realms that Boccaccio would later call "divine." The poem's terza rima—interlocking three-line rhyme—was his invention. His choice of dialect became the foundation of modern Italian, and his influence bled across borders: Chaucer, Milton, Tenn…
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