Who Was Alive

Were Dante Alighieri and Ibn Battuta alive at the same time?

Yes. Dante Alighieri and Ibn Battuta were alive at the same time for 17 years, from 1304 to 1321.

Ibn Battuta was 17 when Dante Alighieri died.

Dante Alighieri

Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher

Born c. 1265 · died 14 September 1321

Ibn Battuta

14th century Muslim Maghrebi scholar and explorer

Born 24 February 1304 · died c. 1368

  1. Rumi
  2. Thomas Aquinas
  3. Marco Polo
  4. Dante Alighieri
  5. Ibn Battuta
  6. Petrarch
  7. Hafez
  8. Ibn Khaldun
  9. Geoffrey Chaucer
Dante Alighieri and Ibn Battuta in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.