Durante degli Alighieri, better known as Dante, (c. 1 June 1265 – 13/14 September 1321) was an Italian Florentine poet. His greatest work, La divina commedia (The Divine Comedy), is considered as one of the greatest literary statements produced in Europe in the medieval period and it is the basis of the modern Italian language.

 

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality.

* John F. Kennedy misquoting Dante (24 June 1963) . Dante placed those who "non furon ribelli né fur fedeli" — were neither for nor against God, in a special region near the mouth of Hell; the lowest part of Hell, a lake of ice, was for traitors.

About Dante Alighieri:

 * And you, beloved children, whose lot it is to promote learning under the magisterium of the Church, continue as you are doing to love and tend the noble poet whom We do not hesitate to call the most eloquent singer of the Christian idea.
- Pope Benedict XV, In Praeclara Summorum (1921-04-30)

* Dante does not come before us as a large Catholic mind; rather as a narrow, and even sectarian mind: it is partly the fruit of his age and position, but partly too of his own nature. His greatness has, in all senses, concentred itself into fiery emphasis and depth. He is world-great not because he is world-wide, but because he is world-deep. Through all objects he pierces as it were down into the heart of Being. I know nothing so intense as Dante.
- Thomas Carlyle, in "The Hero as Poet" from Heroes and Hero-Worship (1841)

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