#OTD in 1321, Dante Alighieri dies. He "was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia) and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Alighieri

Dante at PG:

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