Durante degli Alighieri, commonly known as Dante Alighieri or simply Dante (1265 – 1321), was a major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered the most important poem of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language.
Dino S. Cervigni is professor of Italian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of numerous books, as well as founder and editor of the journal Annali d’Italianistica.
Edward Vasta is professor emeritus of English and a fellow of the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame.
