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Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) was an Italian poet whose 'Divine Comedy' - a journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise - is one of the supreme achievements of world literature. Writing in vernacular Italian rather than Latin, he created both a masterpiece and a national language, earning the title 'the Supreme Poet' (il Sommo Poeta).
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