Dante (1265–1321) is considered the greatest Italian poet, best known for La commedia (The Divine Comedy), an epic poem that is one of the world’s most important and influential works of literature. The poem, which is divided into three sections—Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso—follows a man, generally assumed to be Dante himself, as he visits Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven.
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