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Dante Alighieri

Italian writer and philosopher (1265–1321)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 26, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Dante Alighieri, widely known mononymously as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Dante Alighieri” as italian writer and philosopher (1265–1321). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Dante, Alighieri and Italian.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current 49-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Dante, Alighieri and Italian providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Dante Alighieri”, the useful work is to connect “italian writer and philosopher (1265–1321)” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 26, 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dante Alighieri” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.