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      • Dante's father was Alighiero di Bellincione, a businessman and moneylender, and Dante's mother was Bella, probably a member of the Abati family, a noble Florentine family.
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  2. Apr 23, 2024 · Because Dante was born in 1265 and the exiled Guelfs, to whose party Dantes family adhered, did not return until 1266, Dante’s father apparently was not a figure considerable enough to warrant exile. Dantes mother died when he was young, certainly before he was 14. Her name was Bella, but of which family is unknown.

  3. Dante's father was Alighiero di Bellincione, a businessman and moneylender, and Dante's mother was Bella, probably a member of the Abati family, a noble Florentine family. She died when Dante was not yet ten years old.

    • Who Was Dante?
    • Early Years
    • Exile
    • 'The Divine Comedy'
    • Legacy

    Dante was an Italian poet and moral philosopher best known for the epic poem The Divine Comedy, which comprises sections representing the three tiers of the Christian afterlife: purgatory, heaven and hell. This poem, a great work of medieval literature and considered the greatest work of literature composed in Italian, is a philosophical Christian ...

    Dante Alighieri was born in 1265 to a family with a history of involvement in the complex Florentine political scene, and this setting would become a feature in his Inferno years later. Dante’s mother died only a few years after his birth, and when Dante was around 12 years old, it was arranged that he would marry Gemma Donati, the daughter of a fa...

    In his exile, Dante traveled and wrote, conceiving The Divine Comedy, and he withdrew from all political activities. In 1304, he seems to have gone to Bologna, where he began his Latin treatise "De Vulgari Eloquentia" (“The Eloquent Vernacular”), in which he urged that courtly Italian, used for amatory writing, be enriched with aspects of every spo...

    In the spring of 1312, Dante seemed to have gone with the other exiles to meet up with the new emperor at Pisa (Henry’s rise was sustained, and he was named Holy Roman Emperor in 1312), but again, his exact whereabouts during this period are uncertain. By 1314, however, Dante had completed the Inferno, the segment of The Divine Comedy set in hell, ...

    Dante’s Divine Comedy has flourished for more than 650 years and has been considered a major work since Giovanni Boccaccio wrote a biography of Dante in 1373. By 1400, at least 12 commentaries had already been written on the poem’s meaning and significance. The work is a major part of the Western canon, and T.S. Eliot, who was greatly influenced by...

  4. D.'s father and greatgrandfather were both named Alighiero, this name being derived from Cacciaguida's wife, Aldighiera degli Aldighieri . His father, who may have been a judge and a notary, married twice, D. being the son of his first wife, Bella; by his second wife, Lapa, he had another son, Francesco, and a daughter, Tana.

  5. May 3, 2024 · Dante and Virgil beset by demons while passing through Malebolge, the eighth circle of Hell in canto XVIII of Inferno, illustration by Gustave Doré, 1861. The poem begins with Dante at midlife—specifically, 35 years old—and lost inside a dark wood. He is guided by the Roman poet Virgil, who represents the epitome of human knowledge, from ...

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  6. Oct 12, 2020 · Vitosmo (CC BY-NC-SA) Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) was an Italian poet and politician most famous for his Divine Comedy (c. 1319) where he descends through Hell, climbs Purgatory, and arrives at the illumination of Paradise. Dante meets many historical characters along the way, including his guide, the Roman poet Virgil (70-19 BCE).