Durante degli Alighieri, better known as Dante, was a human poet from Earth who wrote during the late 13th century and early 14th century. Khan had a copy of Dante's Inferno, a book describing Hell from Dante’s La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy), on his bookshelf while on Ceti Alpha V. (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)
Dante also wrote a book of verse around 1293 entitled La Vita Nuova (“The New Life"). Kathryn Janeway was reading a translation of that book in 2375 while helping The Doctor cope with an ethical conflict. (VOY: "Latent Image")