Dante Alighieri Summary

Everything you need to understand or teach Dante Alighieri.

  • 2 Biographies
  • 3 Student Essays
  • 3 Encyclopedia Articles
  • 5 Literature Criticisms
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Encyclopedia Articles (3)

1,287 words, approx. 5 pages
Dante Alighieri DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265–1321), Italian poet, theologian, and philosopher. Dante offered in his Commedia a "sacred poem" of enormous erudition and aesthetic power, wh... Read more
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Dante Alighieri 1265-1321 Italian poet who in his Divine Comedy (1308-21) popularized ideas on geometry and astronomy. Perhaps the most significant literary work of the later Middle Ages, the Divine C... Read more
3,268 words, approx. 11 pages
Dante Alighieri(1265–1321) Dante Alighieri, the author of the Divine Comedy, was born in Florence of a middle-class family with some pretensions to nobility. It is likely that he frequented the... Read more