ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Dante, in full Dante Alighieri, (born c. May 21–June 20, 1265, Florence [Italy]-died September 13/14, 1321, Ravenna), Italian poet, prose writer, literary theorist, moral philosopher, and political thinker.

Detailed explanation-2: -Dante Alighieri is one of the most important and influential names in all of European literature, but it was only after his exile from his native Florence at age 37 (1302) that he set out to write his more ambitious works.

Detailed explanation-3: -Dante is known as the “Father of the Italian Language” because he chose to write his verses in the language spoken by ordinary people, opting for the Tuscan dialect, at a time when poetry was generally written in Latin.

Detailed explanation-4: -Italian poet and scholar Dante Alighieri is best known for his masterpiece La Commedia (known in English as The Divine Comedy), which is universally considered one of world literature’s greatest poems.