Dante Alighieri

1265 – 1321

Made the vernacular capable of epic theology, politics, and philosophy; the *Comedy* helped establish literary Italian and Europe’s canonical imagination.

• c. 1265–1321

  Made the vernacular capable of epic theology, politics, and philosophy; the *Comedy* helped establish literary Italian and Europe’s canonical imagination

  Made the vernacular capable of epic theology, politics, and philosophy; the *Comedy* helped establish literary Italian and Europe’s canonical imagination.