Dante Alighieri (–1321)
Author of The Inferno
About the Author
Born Dante Alighieri in the spring of 1265 in Florence, Italy, he was known familiarly as Dante. His family was noble, but not wealthy, and Dante received the education accorded to gentlemen, studying poetry, philosophy, and theology. His first major work was Il Vita Nuova, The New Life. This brief show more collection of 31 poems, held together by a narrative sequence, celebrates the virtue and honor of Beatrice, Dante's ideal of beauty and purity. Beatrice was modeled after Bice di Folco Portinari, a beautiful woman Dante had met when he was nine years old and had worshipped from afar in spite of his own arranged marriage to Gemma Donati. Il Vita Nuova has a secure place in literary history: its vernacular language and mix of poetry with prose were new; and it serves as an introduction to Dante's masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, in which Beatrice figures prominently. The Divine Comedy is Dante's vision of the afterlife, broken into a trilogy of the Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise. Dante is given a guided tour of hell and purgatory by Virgil, the pagan Roman poet whom Dante greatly admired and imitated, and of heaven by Beatrice. The Inferno shows the souls who have been condemned to eternal torment, and included here are not only mythical and historical evil-doers, but Dante's enemies. The Purgatory reveals how souls who are not irreversibly sinful learn to be good through a spiritual purification. And The Paradise depicts further development of the just as they approach God. The Divine Comedy has been influential from Dante's day into modern times. The poem has endured not just because of its beauty and significance, but also because of its richness and piety as well as its occasionally humorous and vulgar treatment of the afterlife. In addition to his writing, Dante was active in politics. In 1302, after two years as a priore, or governor of Florence, he was exiled because of his support for the white guelfi, a moderate political party of which he was a member. After extensive travels, he stayed in Ravenna in 1319, completing The Divine Comedy there, until his death in 1321. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Since there are other authors called Dante, the works of Dante Alighieri on that author page are now aliased here, instead of the pages being combined.
Image credit: Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Series
Works by Dante Alighieri
The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (in one volume); Introduction by Eugenio Montale (1993) 260 copies
Die Göttliche Komödie. Auswahl. Unter Verwendung der Übersetzung von Hermann Gmelin herausgegeben von Heinrich… (1986) 27 copies
Tutto Dante. Inferno canto ventiseiesimo. volume 11 — Author — 15 copies
Dante's Purgatorio (The Divine Comedy, Volume II, Purgatory) [Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with an… (1308) 13 copies
Enciclopedia Dantesca 12 copies
Commedia und Einladungsband: I.Commedia. In deutscher Prosa von Kurt Flasch II.Einladung, Dante zu lesen (2011) 10 copies
Obras completas : contendo o texto original italiano e a tradução em prosa portuguêsa : volume V 9 copies
The Inferno 6 copies
A Divina Comédia: Inferno 5 copies
Rejna 7-t4: Le vite di Dante dal 14. al 16. secolo: iconografia dantesca (2017) — Autore in riferimento — 5 copies
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Opere di dubbia attribuzione. Tomo 2: Opere già attribuite a Dante e altri documenti danteschi (2021) — Author — 4 copies
A Divina Comédia - vol 2/2 4 copies
A Mentor classic 4 copies
La letteratura italiana. Storia e testi. Volume 5 - Tomo I - Parte I Vita nuova - Rime - Il fiore - Detto d'amore — Author — 4 copies
The Inferno: 2 4 copies
La Divina Commedia: Inferno Part I 4 copies
La Vita Nuova e il Convivio 4 copies
La divina comedia - Tomo II 3 copies
Dante: The divine comedy 3 copies
A Translation of Dante's Eleven Letters: With Explanatory Notes and a Biographical, Historical, and Critical Comment to… (2010) 3 copies
A Divina Comédia, Tomo II 3 copies
Box A divina comédia 3 copies
La Commedia. Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso: Testi scelti. Italienischer Text mit deutschen Worterklärungen. Niveau… (2021) 3 copies
Nuova edizione commentata delle opere di Dante. Con Bibliografia citata in forma abbreviata (anticipazione provvisoria… (2023) 3 copies
Concordanza della Commedia di Dante Alighieri: testo critico del poema, rimario e indice analitico — Author — 3 copies
A Divina Comédia - vol 1/2 3 copies
Opere 1 — Author — 3 copies
La Divina Commedia: Paradiso Part I 3 copies
The Odes of Dante 3 copies
Detto d' amore 2 copies
Opere minori. Tomo II 2 copies
Enciclopedia dantesca: Som - Tr 15 2 copies
The Programmed Classics 2 copies
La Divina Comèdia (vol. II) 2 copies
Dantis Alagherii opervm latinorvm concordantiae : cvrante Societate Dantea qvae est Cantabrigiae in Nova Anglia — Author — 2 copies
Rime della maturità e dell'esilio 2 copies
Divina Comedia. Una adaptación para todas las edades (Colección el Bosque Viejo) (Spanish Edition) (2009) 2 copies
Dante Alighieri Monarquia 2 copies
Lírica 2 copies
The Divine Comedy, III. Paradiso, Vol. III. Part 1: 1: Italian Text and Translation; 2: Commentary (Bollingen Series… (2021) 2 copies
Enciclopedia dantesca: Tu - Z 16 2 copies
La Divina Comedia La Vida Nueva 2 copies
Inferno (Wilco Classic Library) 2 copies
Vita Nuova [New Life]: Edizione inglese con testo italiano a fronte [English Edition with Italian Text Opposite] (2022) 2 copies
The Divine Comedy, a new translation by Lawrence Grant White, with 69 engravings by Gustave Dore; 2 copies
A Divina Comédia - O Inferno 2 copies
Opere di Dante. 8.3: De situ et forma aque et terre — Author — 2 copies
La letteratura italiana. Storia e Testi. Volume 5 - Tomo I - Parte II Convivio — Author — 2 copies
Readings On the Inferno of Dante: Based Upon the Commentary of Benvenuto Da Imola and Other Authorities; Volume 2 (2018) 2 copies
La Commedia / Die Göttliche Komödie 2 copies
Le terze rime 2 copies
Enciclopedia dantesca: O - Pis 12 2 copies
Tympans Romans : Nord de la France 2 copies
Manuale Dantesco : per le scuole 2 copies
La Divina Commedia: testi, strumenti, percorsi: antologia della Divina Commedia con schede critiche, strumenti… (1999) 2 copies
Enciclopedia dantesca: Des - Fec 8 2 copies
Commedia - Lubin 2 copies
The purgatory. (Purgatoria I. XXVII) 2 copies
Enciclopedia dantesca: Fed - Gri 9 2 copies
Enciclopedia dantesca: Gro - Lum, 10 2 copies
I quattro poeti Italiani 2 copies
Enciclopedia dantesca: Lun - N 11 2 copies
Tutti le Opere Dr. E. Moore 2 copies
Canzoniere (Fraticelli), 2 vols. 2 copies
Enciclopedia dantesca: Ris - Sol 14 2 copies
Divina Commedia Ricaldone, 3 copies 2 copies
Divina Commedia Scartazzinini 2 copies
La divina comedia y La vida nueva 2 copies
DIVINA COMEDIA - TOMO II 2 copies
Opere Minore, Fraticelli 2 copies
La Vita Nuova Casini 2 copies
La Vita Nuova Fraticelli 2 copies
Enciclopedia dantesca: Pit - Rip 13 2 copies
La Vita Nuova (Witte) 2 copies
Classici Italiani Commentati 1 copy
La Divina Comèdia, vol. 3 1 copy
Dante - Ed. Verbo 1 copy
DANTES GUDOMLIGA KOMEDI 3 1 copy
La Divina Comèdia, vol. 2 1 copy
La Divina Commedia-Le parole della Divina Commedia. Dizionario attivo. Per le Scuole superiori (2008) 1 copy
La commedia Introduzione 1 copy
Dante og Beatrice 1 copy
Pagine scelte dalle opere 1 copy
Obras completas vol.1 1 copy
A reference grammar of medieval Italian according to Dante, with a dual language edition of the Vita Nova (1997) 1 copy
Oeuvres de Dante Alighieri 1 copy
Divina comèdia VI 1 copy
Poetas de Dante 1 copy
EL CONVIVIO 1 copy
Dante Autograph 1 copy
Poesía 1 copy
Divina Comedia/ Vida Nueva 1 copy
Božanstvena Komedija 1 copy
PARAJSA 1 copy
FERRI 1 copy
KOMEDIA HYJNORE 1 copy
La divina comedia I 1 copy
Seleção de textos 1 copy
Opere di Dante Aligheri 1 copy
Divine comédie III, Paradis 1 copy
Divine comédie I, Enfer 1 copy
La Divina Commedia 1 copy
Opere 1 copy
Božanstvena komedija 1 copy
12 sonnetti 1 copy
Göttliche Komödie 1 copy
Vita Nuova 1 copy
Divina Comedie vol1 1 copy
İlahi Komedya(Cehennem) 1 copy
Commedia Partadiso 1 copy
INFERNUL VOL1 1 copy
INFERNUL VOL2 1 copy
Divina Comedie vol2 1 copy
OBRA COMPLETA 1 copy
La Divine comédie, Tome 2 1 copy
Manoscritto n. 3 1 copy
Vita Nuova 1 copy
Dante tutte le opere 1 copy
Göttliche Komödie 1 copy
Zaljubljeno more 1 copy
Den guddommelige komedie 1 copy
La divina comedia I-II 1 copy
La Divina Comèdia (vol. III) 1 copy
Antologia dantesca 1 copy
A Translation of the Inferno of Dante Alighieri, in English Verse: With Historical Notes, and the Life of Dante. to… (2010) 1 copy
Divina comèdia Vol. II 1 copy
Opera omnia 1 1 copy
Il poema sacro cui pose mano e cielo e terra. La Divina Commedia. Ediz. integrale. Con espansione online (2010) 1 copy
Dante's Poems 1 copy
الكوميديا الإلهية - الفردوس 1 copy
Božská komédia. Očistec 1 copy
O Inferno de Dante: "A Divina Comédia" (Série "A Divina Comédia") (Portuguese Edition) (2021) 1 copy
Paulo and Francesca 1 copy
Komedia Hyjnore 1 copy
La Divina Comedia 2 1 copy
Paradiso XVIII-XXXIII. Edizione critica alla luce del più antico codice di sicura fiorentinità (2019) 1 copy
Canzone Inedita Di Dante Alighieri in Lode Della Vergine Madre (Classic Reprint) (Italian Edition) (2017) 1 copy
Rime. 1: I documenti 1 copy
La vita nuova e rime scelte 1 copy
Gnomologia Dantesca, Ovvero Detti Memorabili di Dante: Raccolti Dalla Divina Commedia, e Illustrati Ad Uso di Citazioni… (2017) 1 copy
Dante Alighieri: Selected Works (Golden Deer Classics): The Divine Comedy, The Epistle to Can Grande (2017) 1 copy
Paradiso I-XVII. Edizione critica alla luce del più antico codice di sicura fiorentinità (2018) 1 copy
Opera omnia 2 1 copy
La Divina Commedia Angelica 1 copy
Dante, le rime in breve 1 copy
Edizione integrale in fac-simile dei manoscritti 1005 della Biblioteca Riccardiana di Firenze e AG 12. 2 della… (2007) 1 copy
Dante per voce sola 1 copy
Dantes Gœttliche komœdie in bildern von Gustav Doré — Contributor — 1 copy
Divina Comedia, vol. 2 1 copy
Divina Comedia, vol. 1 1 copy
A Divina Comédia. O Paraíso 1 copy
Dante - I poeti italiani /1 1 copy
This Book Announces the Publication in Four Folio Volumes of the Comedy of Dante Alighieri of Florence (1929) 1 copy
[3]: Cantica 3.: Paradise 1 copy
Dante's Lyric Poetry 1 copy
Die goettliche Komoedie 1 copy
La Divina Commedia: nuovamente illustrata da artisti italiani a cura di Vittorio Alinari, Vol. III 1 copy
Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia: Codex Altonensis [facsimile] und Kommentar zum Codex Altonensis 1 copy
Jest tylko Beatrycze 1 copy
nel mezzo del cammin.... 1 copy
Divina Commedia. Inferno. Interpretazione letterale e decodificazione dei versi a fronte. Esposizione e commento di… (2007) 1 copy
Obras completas : contendo o texto original italiano e a tradução em prosa portuguêsa : volume II 1 copy
Opere Scelte 1 copy
Il Canzoniere 1 copy
Dante, how to Know Him 1 copy
Összes művei 1 copy
Opere minori vol. 2 Rime 1 copy
La divina commedia 132/23N 1 copy
Il Paranasso Italiano 1 copy
Divina Comedie 2 1 copy
Divina comedie 1 1 copy
La Cumégia 1 copy
HLa Ivita nova e Il convito 1 copy
Quaestio de aqua et de terra 1 copy
DANTE-CHAUCER 1 copy
Dante's Göttliche Komödie in Deutschen Stanzen Frei Bearbeitet (Classic Reprint) (German Edition) (2017) 1 copy
Pekel 1 copy
Vita Nuova (FS 2015) 1 copy
1: Introduzione 1 copy
Associated Works
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1: From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons (2012) — Contributor — 283 copies
The Best of the World's Classics: Volume VIII Continental Europe II (1909) — Contributor, some editions — 27 copies
The Middle Ages to the 17th Century: Literature of the Western World (1961) — Contributor, some editions — 23 copies
Grolier Classics: Les Miserables, Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, French Revolution, Divine Comedy (1955) 16 copies
Sunlight on the River: Poems About Paintings, Paintings About Poems (2015) — Contributor — 10 copies
Oogst der tijden : keur uit de werken van schrijvers en dichters aller volken en eeuwen (1940) — Contributor — 10 copies
The Early Italian poets from Ciullo d'Alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100-1200-1300) : in the original metres, together… (1904) — Contributor — 8 copies
Dante per immagini: dalle miniature trecentesche ai giorni nostri (2018) — Autore in relazione — 5 copies
American Aphrodite: A Quarterly for the Fancy-Free Volume 5 Number 17 (1955) — Contributor — 3 copies
American Aphrodite: A Quarterly for the Fancy-Free (Volume 1, Number 1) (1951) — Contributor — 3 copies
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- Canonical name
- Alighieri, Dante
- Legal name
- Alighieri, Durante degli
- Other names
- Dante
- Birthdate
- n. 1265-05
- Date of death
- 1321-09-14
- Burial location
- Piazza San Francesco, Ravenna, Italia
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Florence
- Country (for map)
- Italy
- Birthplace
- Florence, Italy
- Place of death
- Ravenna, Italy
- Places of residence
- Verona, Italy
- Occupations
- poet
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- Guelphs
- Short biography
- Dante Alighieri, (May 14/June 13, 1265 – September 13/14[1], 1321), was a Florentine Italian poet. Like many in the Florence of his day, he became involved in the conflict between the Guelph and Ghibelline factions. He fought in the Battle of Campaldino (1289) and held several political offices over the years. His central work, the Divina Commedia (Divine Comedy, originally called "Comedìa"), is composed of three parts: the Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise. Dante was exiled from the city he loved, and addressed the pain of his loss in his work.
- Disambiguation notice
- Since there are other authors called Dante, the works of Dante Alighieri on that author page are now aliased here, instead of the pages being combined.
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Still, as I passed being 20% of the way through the book it became more meaningful to me. I also thought about the reaction of offended contemporaries; what kind of person was Dante to write with such chance of causing enemies? I began to notice that nearly all of the people mentioned seemed to be Italian. What reaction was there to the book?… (more)