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__ D A N T E __

__Dates: __  1265-1321 (about 56) __Location: __  Florence __Facts: __ 1.) Dante’s mother died when he was 10 years old. 2.) Dante married Gemma when he was 12 years old, even though he was in love with another girl, Beatrice. 3.) Dante wrote ‘The Divine Comedy’. 4.) Dante helped established the Italian language. 5.) Dante taught himself how to write poetry.

__Summary __  Dante was an Italian poet, prose writer, literary theorist, moral philosopher, and political thinker. He is best known for writing ‘The Divine Comedy’. He is also known as “Father of the Italian Language” since he helped create the Italian language. Later in Dante’s last 2 decades of his life he was exiled from Florence, his home land. That's why Dante was so important during the renaissance.