Dante Alighieri (1265–1321)
Dante Alighieri was born in 1265 into the lower nobility of Florence, to Alighiero di Bellincione d'Alighiero, a moneylender. A precocious student, Dante's education focused on rhetoric and grammar. He also became enamored with a young girl, Beatrice Portinari, whose death in 1290 threw a grieving Dante into intense religious studies. Though the ...
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Died:(age 56) in Ravenna, Papal State [now Emilia-Romagna, Italy] |
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