Dante Alighieri

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Dante Alighieri
Historical Figure
Timeline:	OTL
Nationality:	Florence (modern Italy)
Religion:	Catholicism
Date of Birth:	1265
Date of Death:	1321
Cause of Death:	Natural causes (possibly malaria)
Occupation:	Politican, poet
Timeline:	The Gladiator (posthumous reference)

Dante Alighieri, or simply Dante (1265–1321), was an Italian poet from Florence. His central work, the Divine Comedy, is considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature. The most famous canitca of this work is Inferno.

[edit] Dante Alighieri in The Gladiator

Gianfranco Mazzilli had to write a canto in the style of Dante for his literature class. As part of that assignment, he had to chose a feudal lord, a capitalist, and a Fascist and assign each to a circle of Hell. Mazzilli thought that writing in Dante's style was a daunting task, given the changes in the language in the 900 years since Dante had written Inferno.