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Dante Alighieri Quotes
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Dante Alighieri was poet from Italy
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Get Dante's Quotes“In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark forest.”— Dante Alighieri
The first line of the Divine Comedy. Dante wrote it in exile, stripped of home, property, and citizenship. The dark forest was not a metaphor but a description of his life: political exile, poverty, dependence on patrons. From that forest he created the greatest work of world literature.
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Ravenna
Dante died on September 14, 1321, in Ravenna of malaria. He was fifty-six. Florence repeatedly asked for his remains to be returned. Ravenna refused every time. He is buried there to this day. The Comedy was called Divine half a century after his death. Boccaccio added the word.
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