A European Informational Website
learn more
Durante degli Alighieri, better known as Dante Alighieri or simply Dante, (May 14/June 13 1265 – September 13/14[1], 1321) was an Italian poet from Florence. His central work, the Commedia (The Divine Comedy), is considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature. In Italian he's know as "the Supreme Poet" (il Sommo Poeta).