Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri was born into the violent factional politics of medieval Florence, fell in love with a girl named Beatrice at age nine, lost her to death at twenty-four, and never recovered. When political enemies exiled him from Florence at thirty-six, condemning him to be burned alive if he returned, he wandered Italy's courts for the rest of his life, never seeing home again. In that bitter exile, he wrote the Divine Comedy, a 14,233-line poem describing a journey through the afterlife: the terraced horrors of Hell, the cleansing slopes of Purgatory, the spinning spheres of Paradise. It is perhaps the greatest single work of literature ever written. Dante populated his Hell with popes, emperors, and personal enemies; he made Virgil his guide and Beatrice his salvation. He wrote not in Latin but in Tuscan vernacular, essentially creating the Italian language.

Dante is best known as a artist. Florentine poet whose Divine Comedy stands among the greatest works of world literature.

Dante lived 1265-1321 CE, born in 1265 and died in 1321, during the medieval period.

Yes, free. Anyone can ask Dante, and a first question needs no account. Every answer is a Simulation in character, grounded in Dante’s real life, work and era. A good first question is: "I feel lost in life, how do I find my way when I can't see the path?"