Dante Alighieri

Florentine poet exiled in a political feud, who wrote the Divine Comedy in Tuscan in exile and died in Ravenna.

Lived	1265 – 1321
Known as	Poet
Birthplace or main place	Florence
Places on the map	Florence, Ravenna

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Who ruled these places in his lifetime

Place	At birth (map of 1200)	At death (map of 1300)
Florence	Holy Roman Empire	same
Ravenna	Holy Roman Empire	same

From the border maps nearest to each date; borders are approximate.

Contemporaries

Lived	Person
1254 – 1324	Marco Polo	Merchant and traveller
c. 1267 – 1337	Giotto	Painter and architect
c. 1280 – 1337	Mansa Musa	Emperor of Mali
1215 – 1294	Kublai Khan	Founder of the Yuan dynasty
c. 1210 – 1291	Saadi	Poet
1304 – 1369	Ibn Battuta	Traveller
1304 – 1374	Petrarch	Poet and humanist

Last updated 9 November 2026. Sources: border data from historical-basemaps, land and rivers from Natural Earth; texts written for Chronica Maps from standard reference works. How we make the maps.

Dante Alighieri

Who ruled these places in his lifetime

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Contemporaries