dantes

Dante’s Inferno Dante Alighieri, one of the greatest poets of the middle ages, was born in Florence, Italy on June 5, 1265. He was born to a middle-class Florentine family. At an early age he began to write poetry and became fascinated with lyrics during his adolescence, Dante fell in love with a beautiful girl named Beatrice Portinari. He saw her only twice but she provided much inspiration for his literary masterpieces. Her death at a …showed first 75 words of 1856 total…

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