Dante Alighieri was born in 1265 in Florence. A Florentine poet, Dante is best known for the Divine Comedy, an epic poem in which he travels through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, guided first by the Roman poet Virgil and then by Beatrice, the woman he loved. He was active in the politics of Florence, but in 1302 he was exiled after the faction he belonged to lost power, and he never returned. He spent his later years in various Italian cities and died in Ravenna. By writing in the Tuscan dialect rather than Latin, he did much to establish the Italian literary language. His other works include La vita nuova and a treatise on political theory, De monarchia.
Before and after
- c. 1260sPublication of Poetic Edda
- from 18 January 1260 to 24 January 1260Siege of Aleppo
- from 1263 to 1478Grand Principality of Moscow
- from April 1264 to September 1266Mudéjar revolt of 1264–1266
- 1265Birth of Dante Alighieri
- from 1265 to 1479Byzantine–Ottoman wars
- from October 1265 to January 1266Conquest of Murcia
- 26 February 1266Battle of Benevento
- 4 April 1268Byzantine–Venetian treaty of 1268
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