Alegorical portrait of Dante Alighieri, from Agnolo Bronzino, c. 1530. The book he holds is a copy of the Divine Comedy, open to Canto XXV of the Paradiso. Durante degli Alighieri, simply called Dante [c. 1265 – 1321), was a major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedia (modern Italian: Commedia) and later christened Divina by Boccaccio.

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