Jennifer Tsagaratos Tsagaratos 1
Olsen-Burnes
English II Honors
6 May 2008
Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri is known as the finest poet that Italy has ever produced (Dante 1). His most famous book, La divina commedia (The Divine Comedy) has received many accolades but was banned from many European countries during the Middle Ages. Today, however, the Divine Comedy received a resurgence of respect and admiration from today’s society. As said by Jorge Luis Borges, “[The Divine Comedy] is a book that everyone ought to read. Not to do so is to deprive oneself of the greatest gift that literature can give us; to submit to a strange asceticism” (Dante 1)
Dante was born in Florence, Italy in 1265 and was son to Alighiero di Bellincione Alighieri. The exact date of Dante’s birth is unknown but in one of his books, Paradiso, he stated that he was born when the sun was in Gemini which puts his birth around the......

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   Dante Algiheri. Jennifer Tsagaratos Tsagaratos 1 Olsen-Burnes English II
   Honors 6 May 2008 Dante Alighieri Dante Alighieri is known ... ...