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What happened to Dante that led him to write epic poetry?

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He was exiled from Florence for political reasons. Very roughly speaking, Dante was an advocate of a strong Holy Roman Emperor, and thought Florence should subject itself to the HRE. This made him two sets of enemies: those who thought Florence should rule itself, and those who wanted to ally it with the secular claims of the Papacy.





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