Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher born around May 1265 in Florence, Italy, to a family of lesser nobility, where he began writing poetry young and fell in love with Beatrice Portinari at age nine.[1][4] Involved in Florentine politics as a White Guelph, he was exiled in 1302 for refusing a fine related to his activities, wandering Italy before settling in Ravenna, where he completed his masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, shortly before his death on September 13 or 14, 1321.[1][2]

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