Editing Dante Alighieri

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{{Dialogue2|Ezio|Who were these men he condemned to hell?|Sofia|Political opponents, men who wronged him. Alighieri's quill cuts deeply, no?|Sì. It is a subtle way to seek revenge.|Ezio Auditore and Sofia Sartor, upon Ezio's reading of the ''Inferno''.|Assassin's Creed: Revelations|A Little Errand}}
{{Character Infobox
|image = ACIDante.jpg
|birth = c. May or June 1265<br>[[Florence]], [[Republic of Florence]]
|death = 14 September 1321 (aged 56)<br>[[Ravenna]], [[Papal States]]
|species = [[Human]]
|affiliates = [[Assassins]]
*[[Italian Brotherhood of Assassins|Italian Brotherhood]]
}}
'''Durante degli Alighieri''' (1265 – 1321), commonly known as '''Dante''', was an [[Italy|Italian]] poet of the [[Middle Ages]], famed as the writer of the ''{{Wiki|Divine Comedy}}''. He was also a covert member of the [[Italian Brotherhood of Assassins|Italian Brotherhood]] of [[Assassins]].

==Biography==
===Life as an Assassin===
{{Quote|And so began my apprenticeship with Dante Alighieri, one that was to destroy every bit of happiness I would ever have.|Domenico Auditore.|Assassin's Creed II}}
Throughout his life, Dante rose through the ranks of the Assassin Brotherhood and became one of its senior members.<ref name="AC2">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' – [[Auditore Family Crypt]]</ref>

In the late 13th century, Dante was tasked with the training of the son of a fellow Assassin, who would later be known as [[Domenico Auditore]], the founder of the [[House of Auditore|Auditore family]] and a descendant of a long line of Assassins.<ref name="AC2"/>

The day that Domenico first found out about the Brotherhood, his father, his father's patron [[Marco Polo]], and Dante were present. Domenico was a sailor who carried cargo across the Atlantic and Mediterranean, thus, as Marco explained, Dante would train Domenico in the ways of the Order, in exchange for transport to [[Spain]].<ref name="AC2"/>

Dante met with Domenico repeatedly before they departed from [[Venice]] , first conversing with him about practical needs for the journey, such as supplies, then moving on to deeper lessons, and speaking of ''"higher things about life, love, honor and justice"''.<ref name="AC2"/>

Dante showed Domenico the [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex|Codex]] of the legendary Assassin [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad]], and taught him [[the Creed]]. Through their lessons, Dante told his apprentice that society was ''"set up in such a way as to [[New World Order|control its members]], to stop us from thinking, from seeing"''. Soon, Domenico had learned to ''"look past all laws and illusions"'', and see that the people deserved freedom.<ref name="AC2"/>

===Later life and death===
{{Quote|Dante intended to take the Codex to Spain where it would be safe. But he was being watched.|Domenico Auditore.|Assassin's Creed II}}Before his journey to [[Barcelona]] could take place, Dante was murdered by [[Templars]] on a trip to gather his belongings in [[Ravenna]]. Domenico's father explained to him that Dante had been tasked with delivering the Codex to Spain, and urged him to take on the responsibility instead.<ref name="AC2"/> As a result the Assassins discovered that the Templars were never destroyed despite [[Thomas de Carneillon]]'s efforts to [[Persecution of the Templars|erase]] them at 1307.<ref name="ACU">''[[Assassin's Creed: Unity]]'' – [[Database: Journal of Thomas de Carneillon, October 12, 1307]]</ref>

Though Domenico lost his [[Isabetta Auditore|wife]] to pirates during his attempts to fulfill Dante's mission, he was able to scatter the pages of the Codex in the ship's cargo, and keep it safe from Templar hands.<ref name="AC2"/>

==Legacy==
Dante's most enduring work,  written in the vernacular Italian rather than Latin as was custom for poetry in that time, is the ''Divine Comedy'', comprised of ''Inferno'', ''Purgatorio'', and ''Paradiso''. In 1511, almost 200 years after its publication, the Assassin [[Mentor]] [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze]] read Dante's ''Inferno'' in [[Sofia Sartor]]'s shop. Sofia evoked her admiration for Dante's genius, and Ezio commented on Dante's ''"subtle way of revenge"'' through his poems, where he depicted his enemies as being tortured in Hell.<ref name="ACR">''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]''</ref> Incidentally, two of the people Dante placed in Hell, the lowest circle even, were [[Marcus Junius Brutus]] and [[Gaius Cassius Longinus]] for their [[Assassination of Julius Caesar|betrayal]] of [[Gaius Julius Caesar]], despite the fact that Brutus and Longinus were also Assassins and Caesar leader of the Order.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Origins]]''</ref>

==Trivia==
*Durante is an Italian variant of the Latin name ''Durans'' that means "enduring". Alighieri is a name that ultimately stems from Germanic roots ''nadal'', "noble", or ''ald'', "old", and ''gar'', "spear."

==Appearances==
*''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]'' {{Mo}}
*[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations (novel)|''Assassin's Creed: Revelations'' novel]] {{Mo}}
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Unity]]'' {{Mdat}}
*''[[Assassin's Creed (Titan Comics)|Assassin's Creed]]'' {{Mo}}

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