bio notes:
born: 5/15/1265
died: 9/14/1321
born as: Dante Alighieri
nationality: Italy

The greatest Italian poet and one of the towering figures in western European literature. He is best known for the monumental epic poem Commedia, later named La divina commedia (c. 1310-14; The Divine Comedy), a profoundly Christian vision of human temporal and eternal destiny. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature