The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. By: Dante Alighieri and Charles Eliot Norton ( Divine Comedy, originally called Comedia (modern Italian: Commedi

Dante has been called "the Father of the Italian language". 2] In Italy, Dante is often referred to as il Sommo Poeta ("the Supreme Poet") and il Poeta; he, Petrarch, and Boccaccio are also called "the three fountains" or "the three crowns".