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| | Dante Alighieri - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | Dante was born in 1265 and he tells us he was born under the sign of Gemini, placing his birthday in May or June. |
 | | Dante also found time to be a soldier, and in 1289 fought in the battle of Campaldino (June 11), with Florentine knights against Arezzo, then in 1294 he was among those knights who escorted Carlo Martello d'Anjou (son of Charles of Anjou) while he was in Florence. |
 | | Dante, bitter at the treatment he had received at the hands of his enemies, also grew disgusted with the infighting and ineffectiveness of his erstwhile allies and vowed, in his own words, to become a party of one. |
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