Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) was one of the best poets in history, the recorded history of Dante is mostly inexact or unwritten but it is fact that he wrote as a poet and probably inspired others. Dante was born in Florence, Italy in the year 1265, his mother died when Dante was very young. Dante’s father was a notary from a family loyal to the Guelph. It was said that Dante fought with the Guelphs as a cavalryman in the battle of Calpandino (1289). The constitution of the Republic of Florence was reformed in about the year 1295, it was necessary to go into a guild of physicians and apothecaries in order to become part of the government affairs as a diplomat and magistrate. The Guelph’s separated into two groups the black Guelph’s and the white Guelph’s. All of the white Guelph’s were banished from Florence due to the black Guelph’s taking control of Florence including Dante. They were told if they would ever come back they would be burned on the stake. After Dante left he married a woman named Gemma di Manetto Donati which he had 4 children with, their names were Jacopo, Pietro, Giovanni and Antonia. Years later he fell in love with a women named Beatrice Portanari, the young women in his autobiographal Vita Nuova. Dante’s quote about the new women he fell in love with was “At that very moment, and I speak the truth, the vital spirit, the one that dwells in the most secret chamber of the heart, began to tremble so violently that even the most minute veins of my body were strangely affected; and trembling, it spoke these words: Ecce deus fortior me, qui veniens dominabitur michi.” Dante traveled through Italy as a guest of Malaspina. Dante wrote many poems and was a very important part to the renaissance because he was one of the greatest poets in history.