Front Page Authors (by Period) Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri

1265 - 1321

About the Author

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) was a Florentine poet and philosopher who wrote at the end of the Medieval period and the beginning of the Renaissance. His most famous work, The Divine Comedy, is a literary landmark and a synthesis of his political, religious and social views. His embrace of individuality and happiness and the use of Italian instead of Latin are often considered to mark a transition to a new way of thinking about humanity.

In The Library:

• author: De Monarchia (1559)
• author: The Divine Comedy, in 3 vols. (Langdon trans.) (1321)
• author: The Divine Comedy, Vol. 1 (Inferno) (Bilingual edition) (1321)
• author: The Divine Comedy, Vol. 1 (Inferno) (English trans.) (1321)
• author: The Divine Comedy, Vol. 2 (Purgatorio) (Bilingual edition) (1321)
• author: The Divine Comedy, Vol. 2 (Purgatorio) (English only trans.) (1321)
• author: The Divine Comedy, vol. 3 (Paradiso) (Bilingual edition) (1321)
• author: The Divine Comedy, vol. 3 (Paradiso) (English trans.) (1321)

Quotations:

• The 4th Day of Christmas: Dante Alighieri on human perfectibility and peace on earth (1559) (30 December, 2012)