Italy: Dante Allighieri (c. 1265 - 1321), Italian poet, statesman, political theorist. 19th century statue outside the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy. Sculpted by Emilio Demi

Durante degli Alighieri, simply called Dante (c. 1265 – 1321), was a major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa and later christened Divina by Boccaccio, is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.

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