id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5743 Dante Alighieri - Wikipedia .html text/html 8999 1210 74 1265 – 1321), was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher.[5] His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia) and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio,[6] is widely considered the most important poem of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language.[7][8] Dante was instrumental in establishing the literature of Italy, and his depictions of Hell, Purgatory and Heaven provided inspiration for the larger body of Western art.[9][10] He is cited as an influence on Geoffrey Chaucer, John Milton and Alfred Tennyson, among many others. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5743.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5743.txt