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Dante Alighieri -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | Dante was born in 1265 and he tells us he was born under the sign of (A zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere between Taurus and Cancer on the ecliptic) Gemini, placing his birthday in May or June. |
 | | Dante (a White Guelf) pretended that his family descended from the ancient Romans (Inferno, XV, 76), but the earliest relative he can mention by name is Cacciaguida degli Elisei (Paradiso, XV, 135), of no earlier than about 1100. |
 | | 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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