Dante And His Inferno Dante Alighieri, one of the greatest poets of the Middle Ages, was born in Florence, Italy, supposedly around May 29, 1265, to a middle-class Florentine family. A year later, on Easter Sunday, he was baptized, later describing this as his first step toward salvation. At an early age, he began to write poetry and became fascinated with lyrics. In 1274, during his adolescence, Dante fell in love with a beautiful girl named Beatrice Portinari. …showed first 75 words of 1173 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1173 total…could dish out. Dante felt he was a victim of a grave injustice. His works reflect his experiences and attempts to answer some of life's difficult questions. Bibliography Dante's Divine Comedy Volume 1: Inferno http://www.italnet.nd.edu/Dante http://www.angelfire.com/mi/gettingdownwithdante/index.html http://members.aol.com/lieberk/welc_fr.html http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/dante/ http://www.geocities.com/Athens/9039/ http://sophia.smith.edu/~lkleinbe/dante/home.html