s0224l-DANTE ALIGHIERI born Durante degli Alighieri c. 1265-9/1321 in Florence, Italy, writer
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Image is Dante Alighieri, painted by Giotto in the chapel of the Bargello palace in Florence. This oldest portrait of Dante was painted during his lifetime before his exile from his native city.
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The Divine Comedy describes Dante's journey through Hell (Inferno)
Purgatory (Purgatorio)
Paradise (Paradiso), guided first by the Roman poet Virgil and then by Beatrice
La Vita Nuova.
Convivio (The Banquet) a collection of his longest poems with an (unfinished) allegorical commentary
Monarchia, which was condemned and burned after Dante's death
De vulgari eloquentia (On the Eloquence of Vernacular) on vernacular literature
La Vita Nuova (The New Life), the story of his love for Beatrice Portinari, who also served as the ultimate symbol of salvation in the Comedy, contains many of Dante's love poems in Tuscan