Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), commonly known as Dante, was born into a prominent family in Florence. His works in Italian, apart from his masterpiece the Divina Commedia, include the Vita Nuova (finely translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti), the Convivio and Rime, shorter poems. He also wrote in Latin. As Shakespeare is to the English language, so Dante is to the Italian. He is buried in Ravenna.