Dante Alighieri died on 14 September 1321 in Ravenna, aged about 56. 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
- from 1315 to 1317Great Famine of 1315–1317
- from 1320 to 1413Tughlaq dynasty
- 1320The Divine Comedy
- from 1321 to 1328Byzantine Civil War of 1321–1328
- 14 September 1321Death of Dante Alighieri
- c. 1323Origins of Vilnius
- from 1324 to 1861Kingdom of Sardinia
- 1324Mansa Musa's pilgrimage to Mecca
- 8 January 1324Death of Marco Polo
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