THE DIVINE

COMEDY
PRESENTED BY:
ALEX VINCENT BADIANGO
JUDITH MARIE RAMASTA
CUIRTNIE LOVE RAMOS
DANTE DEGLI
ALIGHIERI
 PROFILE:
• Dante Alighieri, or simply Dante (May 14/June 13,1265 –
September 13/14, 1321), was an Italian poet from
Florence, Italy.
• His central work, La Divina Commedia (The Divine
Comedy), is considered the greatest literary work
composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of
world literature.
• In Italian he is known as “the Supreme Poet” (il Sommo
Poeta).
 PROFILE:

• Dante Alighieri, with Francesco Petrarca and Giovanni

Boccaccio are known as “the three fountains” or “the
three crowns”
• Dante is also called “the father of Italian language”.
• The first biography written of him was by his
contemporary Giovanni Villani (1276 – 1348).
 LIFE:

• Dante was born in Florence, Italy. Dante, like most of the

Florentines his days, was embroiledIn the Guelph-
Ghibelline conflict but this took him to be condemned to
exile.
• He died in 1321 (at the age of 56) possibly of malaria.
• Dante was buried in Ravenna at the church of San Pier
Maggiore (later called San Francesco).