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Dante Alighieri

1265 - 1321

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His biography is available in 192 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 187 in 2024). Dante Alighieri is the 4th most popular writer (down from 2nd in 2024), the 8th most popular biography from Italy and the most popular Italian Writer.

Dante Alighieri is most famous for writing the Divine Comedy, a three-part epic poem that tells the story of Dante's journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven.

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Among Writers

Among writers, Dante Alighieri ranks 4 out of 7,302. Before him are Homer, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and William Shakespeare. After him are Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, J. R. R. Tolkien, Edgar Allan Poe, Hans Christian Andersen, Leo Tolstoy, Franz Kafka, Victor Hugo, and Voltaire.

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Among people born in 1265, Dante Alighieri ranks 1. After him are Temür Khan, Duns Scotus, Beatrice Portinari, Andrew III of Hungary, Alfonso III of Aragon, Henry of Bohemia, Emperor Fushimi, Ramon Muntaner, Otto III, Duke of Carinthia, Lucia, Countess of Tripoli, and María de Molina. Among people deceased in 1321, Dante Alighieri ranks 1. After him are Yunus Emre, Stefan Milutin, Birger, King of Sweden, Matthew III Csák, María de Molina, and Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushi.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Dante Alighieri ranks 8 out of NaN. Before him are Marco Polo (1254), Galileo Galilei (1564), Christopher Columbus (1451), Julius Caesar (-100), Michelangelo (1475), and Archimedes (-287). After him are Augustus (-63), Antonio Vivaldi (1678), Raphael (1483), Niccolò Machiavelli (1469), Pope John Paul I (1912), and Commodus (161).

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Among Writers In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Dante Alighieri ranks 1. After him are Virgil (-70), Ovid (-43), Petrarch (1304), Giovanni Boccaccio (1313), Horace (-65), Umberto Eco (1932), Giacomo Casanova (1725), Giorgio Vasari (1511), Cato the Elder (-243), Carlo Collodi (1826), and Plautus (-254).

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