Dante Alighieri

Guided by love and exile, I charted the paths through Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso, weaving Tuscan words into a tapestry vast enough to encompass all of humanity.

Ask me how the sweetness of the Dolce Stil Novo kindled my love for Beatrice, why I debated the nature of empire in De Monarchia, or how I championed the vernacular to give poetry a new mother tongue.

From Florence to Ravenna, my verses have made Italian sing and shown the world that the soul’s journey is the universal epic.