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Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri, widely known mononymously as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language.
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culture · Italian writer and philosopher (1265–1321) · poet · writer · prose writer · politician · philosopher · political theorist · intellectual · linguist · theologian · also Dante Alighieri, Dante, Durante degli Alighieri, Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri, Alighieri
Born 30 May 1265 · Died 13 September 1321 · Q1067
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2026· 7 entries
ReggioToday: L’Università per Stranieri Dante Alighieri entra in Alte come Associate Member
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El diario de Tandil: Sánchez Chopa pidió informes por un loteo en Cima y Dante Alighieri
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Forbes: Dante Aperitivo Co-Owner And Creative Director Nathalie Hudson On Designing One Of The World’s Most Stylish Bars
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El diario de Tandil: Choque y vuelco en Lunghi y Dante Alighieri: dos autos involucrados
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Time Out Worldwide: Dante alums are bringing the Italian coast to the East Village with a spritz-heavy new bar, opening today
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Public attention spiked: 8,160 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.2× the usual 2,586, with 3 article edits. Editors noted: Reverted 1 edit by ~2026-37061-24 (talk)
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2021· 4 entries
The Guardian: The Dante Project review – Wayne McGregor moves heaven, earth and hell
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The Guardian: Upping the Dante: Wayne McGregor and Tacita Dean’s Divine Comedy dance
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The Guardian: Dante's descendant to take part in 'retrial' of poet's 1302 corruption case
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“Taking the Fiction Out of Science Fiction: A Conversation about Indigenous Futurisms”
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2020· 1 entry
The Guardian: Paradise: Dante's Divine Trilogy Part Three by Alasdair Gray review – a fitting finale
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2015· 1 entry
At Italy's Senate of the Republic for the 750th anniversary of Dante's birth
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2008· 1 entry
The Municipality of Florence officially apologized for expelling Dante 700 years earlier
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2007· 1 entry
A reconstruction of Dante's face was undertaken in a collaborative project
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1965· 1 entry
Pope Paul VI promulgated the Latin motu proprio titled Altissimi cantus, which was dedicated to Dante's figure and poetry
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1954· 1 entry
“Letter to Can Grande (Epistle XIII, 23–25), as translated by Charles Singleton in his essay "Two Kinds of Allegory" published in Dante Studies 1 (Harvard University Press, 1954), p. 87.”
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1945· 1 entry
The fascist government discussed bringing Dante's remains to the Valtellina Redoubt, the Alpine valley in which the regime intended to make its last stand against the Allies
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1921· 1 entry
In honor of the 600th anniversary of Dante's death, Pope Benedict XV promulgated an encyclical named In praeclara summorum, naming Dante as one "of the many celebrated geniuses of whom the Catholic faith can boast" and t
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1913· 1 entry
And named Dante Alighieri in honor of him
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1891· 1 entry
“Letter to Can Grande (Epistle XIII, 40), as translated by Charles Latham in A Translation of Dante's Eleven Letters (1891), Letter XI, §16, p. 199.”
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1876· 1 entry
“Wikisource: Göttliche Komödie (Streckfuß 1876)”
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1874· 1 entry
“Libri iii, Caput XIII, (XV.) emendati Johann Heinrich F. Karl Witte (1874) p. 25. Translation as quoted by Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (1958) p. 175.”
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1823· 1 entry
“in the tangled constructions and defective pronunciations”
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1321· 34 entries
Died 1321-09-13.
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“Ámase a la belleza por deleite, y a la virtud por soberana alteza.”
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“Amor y gentil corazón son una misma cosa». [Amore y cor gentil sono una cosa].”
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“(wł. La divina commedia, tłum. Edward Porębowicz)”
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“El tiro que se ve venir llega más lentamente.”
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“En la iglesia, con los santos, y en el figón, con los comilones.”
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“Nie mówmy o nich; popatrz i pójdź dalej.”
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“La nobleza está dondequiera esté el valor, pero no el valor donde está la nobleza.”
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“(it) Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita”
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“Los juicios precipitados se inclinan con preferencia a parte equivocada, y en ocasiones la pasión ofusca el entendimiento.”
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“mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,”
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“In quella parte del libro de la mia memoria, dinanzi a la quale poco si potrebbe leggere, si trova una rubrica, la quale dice: Incipit vita nova.”
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“Mal resiste un deseo contra otro mejor.”
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“ché la diritta via era smarrita.”
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“Philosophie ist nichts anderes als Freundschaft mit der Weisheit." - Das Gastmahl 3, XI, 6”
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“In that book which is My memory... On the first page That is the chapter when I first met you Appear the words... Here begins a new life.”
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“Muchas veces hubieron de llorar los hijos las culpas del padre.”
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“(Original ital.: "Filosofia non è altro che amistanza a sapienza." - Convivio III, xi 6 books.google)”
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“Chapter I, opening lines (as reported in The 100 Best Love Poems of All Time by Leslie Pockell. )”
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“Nada engrandece tanto como la grandeza de la propia bondad, madre y conservadora de las demás grandezas.”
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“Ahi quanto a dir qual era è cosa dura”
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“Sztuka jest dzieckiem natury i wnuczką Boga.”
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“Szlachetny owoc nie pleni się tam, gdzie chwastem zarosło pole.”
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“Szatan złą wolę z rozumem na szkodę łączy człowieka mocą swej natury.”
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“Non ragioniam di lor, ma guarda, e passa.”
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“W miłości jest tyle cierpienia, ile szczęścia.”
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“Uma vontade, mesmo se é boa, deve ceder a uma melhor.”
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“Nadzieja przychodzi do człowieka wraz z drugim człowiekiem.”
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“Mało kocha ten, kto potrafi wyrazić słowami, jak bardzo kocha.”
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“Im doskonalszy jest byt, tym mu więcej Dobro dogodzi, a Zło dokuczy.”
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“Gwiazdy dają wprawdzie pierwszą podnietę do waszych czynów, ale dano wam także światło pozwalające odróżnić zło od dobra oraz wolną wolę, która po chwilowej walce z gwiazdami zwycięża wszystko, jeśli się ją należycie umacnia.”
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“Dobrze ten schował, kto schował w pamięci.”
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“Z cichego świata w światy wiecznie drżąceW nową dziedzinę, nieśmiertelnie ciemną.”
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“Nie wiem, jak w one zaszedłem dzierżawy, Bo mną owładła senność jakaś dużaW chwili, gdy drogi zaniechałem prawej.”
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1265· 1 entry
Born 1265-05-30.
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