Dante Alighieri

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{{Character Infobox
|name = Dante Aligheri
|image = Dante.jpg
|imgdesc = A portrait of Aligheri around the age of 45. He is commonly depicted in this manner: red gown and cap with a wreathe.
|faction = The Order of [[Assassins]]
|appear = ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''
|period = 1265 - 1321, Italy
}}

'''Durante degli Alighieri''' (May/June c.1265 – September 14, 1321), commonly known as '''Dante''', was an [[wikipedia:Italy|Italian]] poet of the [[wikipedia:Middle Ages|Middle Ages]] as well as a high ranking covert member of the Assassins. One of his final charges of his service was the training of the [[Domenico Auditore|Patriarch]] of what would become the Auditore family. His ''[[wikipedia:Divine Comedy|Divine Comedy]]'', originally called ''Commedia'' and later called ''Divina'' by [[wikipedia:Boccaccio|Boccaccio]], is often considered the greatest literary work composed in the [[wikipedia:Italian language|Italian language]] and a masterpiece of world literature.

In Italy, he is known as "the Supreme Poet" (''il Sommo Poeta'') or just ''il Poeta''. Dante, [[wikipedia:Petrarch|Petrarch]] and Boccaccio are also known as "the Three Fountains" or "the Three Crowns". Dante is also called the "Father of the Italian language". The first biography written on him was by [[wikipedia:Giovanni Boccaccio|Giovanni Boccaccio]] (1313-1375), who wrote the ''Trattatello in laude di Dante''

==The Order of The Assassins==
In ''Assassin's Creed'' canon, Dante was a high ranking member of The Order of The [[Assassins]]. Coincidentally, he was tasked with the training of the Patriarch of what would become the Auditore family of Florence. It is known as common knowledge to the Assassins that he was actually murdered in Ravenna by [[Templar]]s while preparing for a journey to Barcelona with his young apprentice, the objective of which was to deliver the [[Codex]] of [[Altair]] to an Assassin Stronghold in Catalonian Spain, somewhere near Barcelona. The stories of his exile and his falling out with the state he so bravely defended are examples of the old saying; "history is written by the victor". Using this as a fork in the road, it can be gathered that the Templars have manipulated history to their own needs and benefit to an extent that the whole truth may never be known. He was a renowned Poet and was exiled from [[Florence]] when he wrote the Divine Comedy. He sheltered in [[Forlì]] for his exile.weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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