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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 76. Chapters: Dante Alighieri, Alexander Pope, John Dryden, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Torquato Tasso, Paul Claudel, David Jones, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Max Jacob, Francis Thompson, Roy Campbell, Robert Southwell, Adelaide Anne Procter, Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair, Denise Levertov, Ivan Gundulic, Abram Joseph Ryan, Robert J. Fox, Marko Marulic, Gjergj Fishta, Maurice Baring, Denis Florence MacCarthy, Ernesto Cardenal, Richard Crashaw, Madeleva Wolff, Coventry Patmore, Leo Yankevich, Alice Meynell, Jan Twardowski, Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, George Cosbuc, Philip Lamantia, Fernando Rielo, Gheorghe Sincai, Meriol Trevor, Ndre Mjeda, Guido Gezelle, Lionel Johnson, Adam Naruszewicz, Hugh F. Blunt, Ghevont Alishan, Regina Derieva, Ján Hollý, Raymond Roseliep, Gilbert Luis R. Centina III, Harriet King, Heinrich von Laufenberg, Jan Zahradnícek, Patrick Joseph Hartigan, Pierre Gringoire, Clifford J. Laube, Louise Imogen Guiney, John Abbot, Maelbrighte Ó Hussey, Agnes Repplier, Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Trojan Gundulic, Maironis, José Iglesias de la Casa, Henry Constable, Antun Pasko Kazali, Ivan Bunic Vucic, Clemente Rebora, Mary Stanislaus MacCarthy, Gwilym Puw, Adélia Prado, Condé Benoist Pallen. Excerpt: Durante degli Alighieri (May/June c.1265 - September 14, 1321), commonly known as Dante (American English pronunciation: /'dnte/, British English: /'dænt/ or /'dænte/), was a major Italian poet of the Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called and later called by Boccaccio, is considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature. In Italy he is known as ("the Supreme Poet") or just. Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio are also known as "the three fountains" or "the three crowns". Dante is also called the "Father of the Italian language". Dante was born in Florence, Italy. The exact date of Dante's birth is not known, although it is generally believed to be around 1265. This can be deduced from autobiographic allusions in La Divina Commedia, "the Inferno" (Halfway through the journey we are living, implying that Dante was around 35 years old, as the average lifespan according to the Bible (Psalms 89:10, Vulgate) is 70 years; and as the imaginary travel took place in 1300, Dante must have been born around 1265). Some verses of the Paradiso section of the Divine Comedy also provide a possible clue that he was born under the sign of Gemini-"As I revolved with the eternal twins, I saw revealed from hills to river outlets, the threshing-floor that makes us so ferocious" (XXII 151-154). In 1265 the Sun was in Gemini approximately during the period 11 May to 11 June. A portrait of Dante, from a fresco in Palazzo dei Giudici, FlorenceDante claimed that his family descended from the ancient Romans (Inferno, XV, 76), but the earliest relative he could mention by name was Cacciaguida degli Elisei (Paradiso, XV, 135), of no earlier than about 1100. Dante's father, Alighiero di Bellincione, was a White Guelph who suffered no reprisals after the Ghibellines won the Battle of Montaperti in the middle of the 13th century. This suggests that Alighiero or his family enjoyed some protective prestige and status, although so