Dante Alighieri

c. 1265 - 1321

One of the greatest Italian (and European) poets of the middle ages and successor to Virgil as a poet of the afterworld.

Inferno Canto 1 lines 61 - 85

Dante and Virgil meet

Mentre ch' io rovinava in basso loco

Dante and Virgil meet

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