Dante: "The Central Man of All the World"

Dante is a collection of lectures about the work of an Italian poet known widely to have directly influenced American literature. Dante Alighieri, probably baptized Durante di Alighiero Degli Alighieri and often referred to simply as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa 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.