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I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?

Dante Alighieri

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Dante Alighieri
Age: 56 †
Born: 1265
Born: June 6
Died: 1321
Died: September 22
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Florence
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Dante
Durante degli Alighieri
Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri
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