Dante Alighieri

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human medieval author philosopher poet politician writer

Dante Alighieri was a medieval Italian poet, writer, and philosopher best known for his epic poem "The Divine Comedy," a cornerstone of world literature and a foundational work of the Italian language.

Aliases (3)

Statements (62)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	human → medieval author → philosopher → poet → politician → writer →
birthDate	1265 →
birthPlace	Florence → Republic of Florence →
canonizedIn	Western canon →
causeOfDeath	fever →
countryOfCitizenship	Republic of Florence →
deathDate	1321-09-14 →
deathPlace	Papacy → Ravenna →
describedAs	father of the Italian language →
era	Middle Ages →
familyName	Alighieri →
fieldOfWork	philosophy → poetry → political theory → theology →
genre	epic poetry → lyric poetry → philosophical treatise → political treatise →
givenName	Durante →
hasPart	Inferno → Paradiso → Purgatorio →
influenced	Francesco Petrarca → Giovanni Boccaccio → Italian literature → Western literature →
influencedBy	Aristotle → Boethius → Thomas Aquinas → Virgil →
languageOfWorkOrName	Italian → Latin →
memberOf	White Guelphs →
movement	Dolce Stil Novo →
name	Dante Alighieri →
nativeLanguage	Italian →
nickname	Dante →
notableWork	Convivio → De Monarchia → De vulgari eloquentia → Inferno → La Vita Nuova → Paradiso → Purgatorio → The Divine Comedy →
occupation	philosopher → poet → politician → writer →
placeOfBurial	Ravenna →
positionHeld	prior of Florence →
religion	Catholicism →
spouse	Gemma Donati →
subjectOf	Dante studies →

Referenced by (43)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Ash-Wednesday → Charles Eliot Norton → Dante Gabriel Rossetti → Ezra Pound → Four Quartets → Geoffrey Chaucer → Giovanni Boccaccio → James Joyce → Jorge Luis Borges → Samuel Beckett → Strange Meeting → T. S. Eliot → The House of Fame → The Waste Land →	influencedBy
Homer → Ovid → Virgil →	influenced
Giovanni Boccaccio → Tuscans →	associatedWith
Dante Gabriel Rossetti ("Dante") → Dante Spinotti ("Dante") →	givenName
Beata Beatrix → The Thinker →	inspiredBy
Divine Comedy →	author
The New Life of Dante →	authorOfOriginalWork
Ravenna →	burialPlaceOf
The Hollow Men →	containsAllusionTo
Bertrand de Born →	depictedBy
Beata Beatrix ("Dante Alighieri (background figure)") →	depicts
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock →	epigraphFrom
Dante Alighieri ("Alighieri") →	familyName
Bertrand de Born →	hasInfluenced
University of Bologna →	hasNotableAlumnus
Ovid’s Metamorphoses →	influenceOn
Inferno (film) →	involvesAuthor
Divine Comedy ("Dante") →	mainCharacter
Dante Alighieri →	name
Dante’s View →	namedAfter
Dante Alighieri ("Dante") →	nickname
Italian language →	notableAuthorLanguageOf
Republic of Florence →	notablePerson
Divine Comedy →	protagonist
The New Life of Dante →	subject