Dante Alighieri
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As the writer of the Divine Comedy, Dante will always have a place in the history of literature. He was also a huge influence on how we view heaven and hell today. Nearly 700 years after his death, we can finally get a decent idea of what he looked like outside of drawings and statues. By the looks of it, Dante did not age particularly well. He was just 56 when he died in 1321, but looks like he could be 10 or 15 years older than that. Of course, it couldn’t have been easy being a poet in the Middle Ages. It also took him 12 years to write the Divine Comedy, which he only finished a year before he died, which must have taken a toll on his appearance.
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