...om their dwelling having been situated in the more ancient part of the city. The most important fact of the poet's genealogy is, that he was of mixed race, the Alighieri being of Teutonic origin. Dante was born, as he himself tells us, when the sun was in the constellation Gemini, and it has been absurdly inferred, from a passage in the Inferno, that his horoscope was drawn and a great destiny pr...