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Durante degli Alighieri, simply referred to as Dante, was an Italian poet, prose writer, literary theorist, moral philosopher, and political thinker of the Middle Ages. He is best known for the monumental epic poem La Commedia, later named La Divina Commedia (Divine Comedy), considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.
In Italy he is known as il Sommo Poeta ("the Supreme Poet") or just il Poeta. Dante is also called the "Father of the Italian language".
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http://www.poemhunter.com/dante-alighieri/biography/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Alighieri