Arnaut Daniel was an Occitan troubadour of the 12th century, praised by Dante as "the best smith" and called a "grand master of love" by Petrarch. In the 20th century he was lauded by Ezra Pound in The Spirit of Romance (1910) as the greatest poet to have ever lived.
Arnaut Daniel
Dante Alighieri, most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language.
Posthumous portrait in tempera by Sandro Botticelli, 1495
Dante's house museum in Florence. The house has been significantly altered since Dante’s time.
Alleged Dante portrait attributed to Giotto, in the chapel of the Bargello palace, Florence. It was painted c. 1335 and has been restored.
Portrait of Dante, c. 1375–1406, from a fresco in the Palazzo dei Giudici, Florence