RAFFAELLO Sanzio
(b. 1483, Urbino, d. 1520, Roma)

La Disputa (detail)

1510-11
Fresco
Stanza della Segnatura, Palazzi Pontifici, Vatican

Dante Alighieri was one of the first humanists and one of the originators of the Early Renaissance. His Divine Comedy, a verse epic from 1320, was regarded as a theological work in Raphael's time, which is why in the Stanza della Segnatura the poet is included among the famous men of the Church.




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