Dante Alighieri, probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to simply as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His monumental poem, known in English as the Divine Comedy, his masterpiece, described as ‘a chronicle of his imaginary journey through hell and purgatory to heaven. The Terza rima, the interlocking  rhyme scheme that Dante first set down in writing has been used by poets ever since. He died in1321.

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