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Dante (Durante degli Alighieri) (1265-1321)

Dante was an Italian poet. His most famous and acclaimed poem is the long narrative, The Divine Comedy, the story of the narrator’s journey through hell and purgatory to paradise.

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It impacts on modern life in that its picture of what hell is like, with its ice and sulphurous fire, where sinners are tortured in the most horrific way, is the image Western culture has of hell. It is the picture of eternal torture that was painted by the Catholic Church for centuries.

Similarly, his purgatory and paradise have become the fixed image of what those places are like and, in fact, have until recently been taught by some religions as though they were real rather than fictional places.

In some Christian sects they are still taught as the places invented by Dante.

Dante is considered to have had one of the greatest literary minds in the whole history of world literature. It is a po