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Italian poet Dante Alighieri, oil on panel by an unknown artist, c. 1550; in the Yale University Art Gallery
Dante Alighieri died in September 1321 in Ravenna, shortly after completing his masterpiece, The Divine Comedy. While the exact cause of his death is not definitively known, some historians and scholars speculate that he may have contracted malaria.1