''Le Rime'' (''The Rhymes'') are a group of lyric poems by

Dante Alighieri Dante Alighieri (; – 14 September 1321), probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to as Dante (, ), was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His '' Divine Comedy'', originally called (modern Italian: ...

written throughout his life and based on the poet's varied existential and stylistic experiences. They were not designed as a collection by Dante himself, but were collected and ordered later by modern critics. A subsection of the collection is a group of four poems known as the ''Rime Petrose'', love poems dedicated to a woman called Petra, composed around 1296. Stylistically those poems are regarded as a transition between the love lyric of '' La Vita Nuova'' and the more sacred subject matter of the ''

Divine Comedy The ''Divine Comedy'' ( it, Divina Commedia ) is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun 1308 and completed in around 1321, shortly before the author's death. It is widely considered the pre-eminent work in Italian literature a ...

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rime, Le Medieval poetry 14th-century books Medieval Italian literature Works by Dante Alighieri de:Dante Alighieri#Rime