needs to help write a biograpical essay
2007-02-12 05:06:57 · 3 answers · asked by flamelizard97 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
www.greatdante.net
www.online-literature.com/dante
An exiled and wandering figure during his writing lifetime, Dante is now considered Italy's greatest poet -- so much a literary giant that he is generally known by his first name alone. The Divine Comedy, by far his most famous work, is the story of a journey through Hell, Purgatory and finally Paradise. (The journey through Hell is often referred to independently as "Dante's Inferno.") In the poem the first two stages are guided by the Roman poet Virgil, and the final visit to Paradise is led by a woman named Beatrice -- a girl Dante met briefly when he was nine and whom he idolized the rest of his life. The Divine Comedy is the source of many famous classical images, inspiring works by William Blake and others, and is famous for its inscription on the gates of Hell: "All hope abandon, ye who enter here."
Extra credit: Dante named his work La commedia, or The Comedy. After his death others added "Divine" to make it La divina commedia.
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Four Good Links
Dante on the Web
An Italian student's homage to the poet; clumsy frame-filled interface, but not a bad starting place
The Princeton Dante Project
Ambitious Web project of annotated electronic texts for scholars
The World of Dante
"Hypermedia environment" for studying Dante, including text of Inferno
Renaissance Dante in Print
Early texts and a chronology of his life
Vital Stats
Birth
1265
Birthplace
Florence, Italy
Death
September 1321
(Malaria)
Best Known As
The author of The Divine Comedy
2007-02-12 05:14:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante
2007-02-12 15:03:49 · answer #2 · answered by meganjoann 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well you could just look it up on google or something. Or you could use the yahoo search.
2007-02-12 13:14:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋