Dante has no living paternal-line descendants. The reason for the unusual (for Italy) double last name Serego Alighieri was to preserve the Alighieri name despi

Dante has no living paternal-line descendants. The reason for the unusual (for Italy) double last name Serego Alighieri was to preserve the Alighieri name despite there being only female descendants left at the time (in the 1500s). Source: https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alighieri#Storia_familiare https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alighieri#Storia_familiare (in Italian)