The word 'divine' was first added to the 1555 edition of The Divine Comedy; the original title was simply The Comedy.Dante Alighieri was born in 1265 in the city of Florence.
In 1274, at the age of nine, Dante meets for the first time Beatriz Portinari, who would provide the inspiration for his major works.
The Divine Comedy has been illustrated by Sandro Botticelli, Michelangelo, John Flaxman, William Blake, Gustave Doré, and Salvador Dalí, and has inspired the music of Tchaikovsky, Giovanni Pacini, and Franz Liszt.
Dante Alighieri considered the Latin poet Virgil one of his most important influences, so much so that in the Divine Comedy he was the character who guided the poet on his journey through Hell and Purgatory. While Beatriz, muse and beloved poet of Dante, was his guide in Heaven.
In 1292 Dante wrote Vita Nuova.
In 1277 Dante Alighieri marries Gemma Donati, with whom he has 4 children: Jacopo, Pietro, Giovanni and Antonia.
Dante Alighieri died in September 1321.
In 2007, Italian scientists from the University of Bologna recreated Dante's royal face. The model is believed to be the closest to its true appearance. A portrait made by Botticelli was used as a base next to the skull.
The sculpture known as Rodin's Thinker was originally baptized by Rodin as Dante thinking of the gates of hell. Although it is popularly known as The Thinker.
The iconography of Auguste Rodin's The Gates of Hell is based on Dante's The Divine Comedy and Baudelaire's poems from his The Flowers of Evil, trying to make a great allegory of love and condemnation.
The Heavy Metal band, Iced Earth has as one of its top works the song Dante`s Inferno that lasts 16 minutes and is based on the Divine Comedy.
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