Tuesday marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, the Florentine poet, politician and philosopher. Dante, or as we call him in Italian, il Sommo Poeta (the Supreme Poet), is most famously known for his role in establishing the use of vernacular in literature at a time when most poetry was written in Latin.
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