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Dante Alighieri: The Supreme Poet and Father of the Italian Language
Dante Alighieri was a 13th-century Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher whose masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is considered the greatest literary work in the Italian language. By writing in his native Tuscan dialect instead of Latin, he single-handedly established Italian as a literary language and shaped the course of Western literature for centuries.