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Durante degli Alighieri (May/June c.1265 – September 14, 1321), commonly known as Dante, was an Italian poet of the Middle Ages and a high ranking covert member of the Assassin Order. His work the Divine Comedy, originally called Commedia and later called Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), is often considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.
In Italy, he was known as Il Sommo Poeta (the Supreme Poet) or simply Il Poeta. Dante, the [poets Petrarch and Boccaccio were 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 Giovanni Boccaccio, author of the Trattatello in laude di Dante.
Biography
Assassin Order
Dante was a high ranking member of the Assassin Order. Coincidentally, he was tasked with the training of the Patriarch of what would become the Auditore family of Florence. It was common knowledge amongst Assassins that he was actually murdered in Ravenna by Templars, whilst preparing for a journey to Barcelona with his young apprentice, the objective of which was to deliver the Codex of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad to an Assassin stronghold.
The stories of his dispute with the state and subsequent exile were examples of the old saying, "History is written by the victor"; the Templars had manipulated history. Dante was exiled from Florence due to his political connections with the White Guelphs. He was sheltered in Forlì during the exile, where he wrote the Divine Comedy.