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Dante Alighieri was an Italian poet born in Florence, Italy between may 11-june 11 in the year 1265 |
Dante died on September 13 1321 at the age of 56 in Ravenna, Italy. Date was born into a wealthy family with a history of involvement in the Florentine political scene. |
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Dante most famous work was La Divina Commedia, now known as the Divine Comedy |
The Divine Comedy is an imaginative vision of after life that is envisioned in the medieval world |
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The Divine Comedy made an unforgettable impression on literature and theology |
It envisions the 3 tiers of afterlifeand divided into 3 parts (inferno-hell, Purgatory, and paradiso-heaven) |
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Divine Comedy represents allegorically- the souls journey towards god |
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Inferno represents represents the awareness of of the sin, purgatorio represents the Christian life and in paradiso, in which Beatrice guides dante through the nine celestial spheres of heaven. |
It also helped establish the Tuscan language (which is what standard Italian is based off) |
