Dante degli Alighieri Is made with Graphite pencil on paper. Dante was an Italian Poet, Writer and Philosopher who died in 1321. Dante’s Divine Comedy is one of his most important works, it represents the whole human race. His saga is the journey of our life. He speaks to the obstacles, that we all face. Betrayal, universal truth and spiritual progress, in a word it is the salvation of mankind and human suffering. His impact on the world, is he contributed to the development of humanism and challenged the hegemonic nature of the church, which helped to generate the intellectual change known as the Renaissance, which changed the world forever.