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date: 30 May 2020

Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) Italian author, poet of the Divine Comedy. 

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The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages

Dante is probably medieval Italy’s pre-eminent poet, as well as an accomplished prose writer. His masterpiece, the Comedy, has ...

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