May 21–June 20, 1265, Florence -died September 13/14, 1321, Ravenna), Italian poet, prose writer, literary theorist, moral philosopher, and political thinker.

Some speculate that he had caught malaria.ĭante, in full Dante Alighieri, (born c. There he died in September 1321, shortly after finishing The Divine Comedy.

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