Dante Alighieri Comments

The Poet where love of a heart cultivated everything fairly and carely. Love for the classical poems and poets lives long

Did Dante mention the apples in Casole d’elsa in one of his poems

The Divine Comedy was written in the vernacular Italian, instead of the then more acceptable Latin or Greek. Due to the monumental influence the work has had on countless artists, Dante is considered among the greatest writers to have lived. As the poet T. S. Eliot wrote, ''Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them, there is no third.''

Dante Alighieri, the author of 'La Commedia' (The Divine Comedy) , considered a masterwork of world literature, was born Durante Alighieri in Florence, Italy, in 1265, to a notable family of modest means. His mother died when he was seven years old, and his father remarried, having two more children. At twelve years old, Dante was betrothed to Gemma di Manetto Donati, though he had already fallen in love with another girl, Beatrice Portinari, who he continued to write about throughout his life, though his interaction with her was limited. The love poems to Beatrice are collected in Dante’s La Vita Nuova, or The New Life.

#238 - Gawd that's funny. There's a List of 50 Jokes among those rated above him.

#238 - Gawd that's funny. There's a List of 50 Jokes among those rated above him.