The great Italian Dante Alighieri is called “the last poet of the Middle Ages and the first poet of modern times.” What he created is so significant that for many centuries it has occupied the attention of all educated people. Disputes around Dante's personality, his works, and the poet's intellectual environment do not subside. And each era finds new colors in the vast cosmos that is the work of the great Italian. The three-volume book “The World of Dante” presents the entire multidimensionality of the poet’s genius, showing the differences in approaches to understanding Dante’s legacy by his descendants. The second volume includes an article by a famous domestic researcher of the great work Italian I.N. Golenishchev-Kutuzov, as well as all the poet’s short works.