Dante
An exiled and wandering figure during his writing lifetime, Dante is now considered Italy's greatest poet -- so much a literary giant that he is generally known by his first name alone. The Divine Comedy,… More »
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Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Italian poet wrote La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy), his allegory of life and God as revealed to a pilgrim, written in terza rima; Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Paradise), written between 1307 and 1321.
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He was the son of Alighiero di Bellincione Alighieri, a notary belonging to an ancient but decadent Guelph family, by his first wife, Bella, who was possibly a daughter of Durante di Scolaio Abati, a Ghibelline noble. ... Already Dante had written his first book, the "Vita Nuova", or "New Life", an exquisite medley of...
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Dante Alighieri was born into a Florentine family of noble ancestry. Little is known about Dante's childhood, but the city where he spent the first 38 years of his life was an important cultural and political center.
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This synthesis of the natural and the intellectual universe expresses an ideal of education which harks back to the late-antique sources of twelfth-century Platonism, but which Dante has imbued with new life.
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Dante Alighieri (the real first name was Durante, Dante is a sort of nickname) was born in Florence in May or June 1265, from a low-aristocracy family (not very wealthy) of the guelfo party. Dante himself will become a white guelfo. ... > Home > His life...
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Elfinspell Editor’s Online Introduction to The New Life of Dante Alighieri, [Vita Nuova], translator, Charles Eliot Norton, English language, adapted for the internet with additional notes by Elfinspell Editor, Medieval Life, The Age of Chivalry in the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Fourteenth Century, 1300’s History of The ...
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Dante Alighieri, Poet, Spiritual Writer ... Dante Alighieri is beyond doubt the greatest of Italian poets, and, many readers think, one of the greatest poets that Western civilization has produced. ... To an observer, Dante's life, at least until his exile, might seem to focus on his military career and his political success.
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