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Dante was born in 1265 in Florence, and died at the age of 55 on September 14, 1321. He was buried in Ravenna. His actual birthday is unknown, but some experts believe it to be between May 11 and June 11. At the age of nine, he met for the first time the eight-year-old Beatrice Portinari, who became in effect his Muse, and remained, after her death in 1290, the central inspiration for his major poems. Dante first studied in grammar, philosophy, literature, rhetoric, and theology. He learned under Brunetto Latini who influenced him greatly.

Some of his major works were the following below:


 * La Vita Nuova1293
 * Il Convivio 1307
 * De Vulagari Eloquentia 1304-07
 * La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy) 1310-1314
 * De Monarchia 1313
 * Ecloques 1319-20
 * Quaestio De Situ Aque Et Terre 1320

His work, //The Divine Comedy//, is to be considered the greatest literary work written in Italian, and a masterpiece of world literature.



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