Writing
Dante Alighieri
Born — Died
1265-06-01 — 1321-09-14
Place of birth
Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Known for
Writing
Credits
5 titles
Dante Alighieri, most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to 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. Dante is known for establishing the use of the vernacular in literature at a time when most poetry was written in Latin, which was accessible only to educated readers. His De vulgari eloquentia (On Eloquence in the Vernacular) was one of the first scholarly defenses of the vernacular. His use of the Florentine dialect for…
Known for
NRThe moon landing is juxtaposed to Dante and Beatrice's journey through paradise in this visual oratorio composed by Jacob ter Veldhuis.
Paradiso, oratorio
2003
9.0It tells the story of Dante Alighieri's love to Beatrice Portinari, loosely based on Dante's poetry.
Beatrice
1919
3.0Dante goes down to Hell with the guard of Vergilius.
Pokol - Inferno
1974
NRA new translation of Dante's Divine Comedy channeling the tools of Edward Muybridge and a meditation on the perception of motion in a motion picture.
La commedia di Amos Poe
2010
Modern adaptation of the poem Divina Commedia by Dante Alighieri.
The Comoedia
1981
Behind the camera
NRThe moon landing is juxtaposed to Dante and Beatrice's journey through paradise in this visual oratorio composed by Jacob ter Veldhuis.
Paradiso, oratorio
2003
9.0It tells the story of Dante Alighieri's love to Beatrice Portinari, loosely based on Dante's poetry.
Beatrice
1919
3.0Dante goes down to Hell with the guard of Vergilius.
Pokol - Inferno
1974
NRA new translation of Dante's Divine Comedy channeling the tools of Edward Muybridge and a meditation on the perception of motion in a motion picture.
La commedia di Amos Poe
2010
Modern adaptation of the poem Divina Commedia by Dante Alighieri.
The Comoedia
1981