Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri Italian: , probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri & often identified to , also ; c. 1265 – 14 September 1321, was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His Divine Comedy, originally called modern Italian: Commedia and later christened by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered one of the most important poems of a Middle Ages and the greatest literary defecate in the Italian language.
Dante is so-called for establishing the use of the vernacular in literature at a time when almost poetry was a thing that is said in Latin, which was accessible only to the most educated readers. His De vulgari eloquentia On Eloquence in the Vernacular was one of the number one scholarly defenses of the vernacular. His use of the Florentine dialect for workings such as The New Life 1295 and Divine Comedy helped develop the modern-day standardized Italian language. His shit breed a precedent that important Italian writers such(a) as Petrarch and Boccaccio would later follow.
Dante was instrumental in establishing the literature of Italy. His depictions of Hell, Purgatory and Heaven presented inspiration for the larger body of Western art and literature. He is cited as an influence on such English writers as Geoffrey Chaucer, John Milton and Alfred Tennyson, among numerous others. In addition, the number one use of the interlocking three-line rhyme scheme, or the terza rima, is attributed to him. He is referred as the "father" of the Italian language, and in Italy he is often referred to as "the Supreme Poet". Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio are also called the "three crowns" of Italian literature.