Who Was Alive

Dante Alighieri

Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher

Born c. 1265 · died 14 September 1321

Who was alive at the same time as Dante Alighieri?

  1. Albertus Magnus
  2. Rumi
  3. Saadi
  4. Louis IX of France
  5. Kublai Khan
  6. Roger Bacon
  7. Thomas Aquinas
  8. Marco Polo
  9. Osman I
  10. Dante Alighieri
  11. Giotto
  12. William of Ockham
  13. Ibn Battuta
  14. Petrarch
  15. Giovanni Boccaccio
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Dante Alighieri died, Marco Polo was 67, Ibn Battuta was 17, Petrarch was 17, Giovanni Boccaccio was 7 or 8 and Osman I was 63.

Born during Dante Alighieri’s lifetime: Ibn Battuta, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio and William of Ockham.

Not quite contemporaries: Ibn Khaldun was born 11 years after Dante Alighieri died, Hafez was born 2 years after Dante Alighieri died, Timur was born 15 years after Dante Alighieri died and Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor died 13 years before Dante Alighieri was born.

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