Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri (actually Durante, Dante was a nickname) was an “Italian poet, [he] was born in Florence in May, 1265. Little is known of his youth except what is told in his work in verse and prose entitled La Vita Nuova (The New Life). This is the story of his love for Beatrice from the first moment of his enamorement, when he was but nine years old and she eight, to her death in June, 1290” (Singleton). In Italy, there was no political union, but the country was divided into many different town councils. The political parties were two: the Guelfi and the Ghibellini. The former ones were in favor of the Pope and the latter ones were in favor oof the emperor. At the beginning of the XIV century, the Guelfi led most of the councils in Italy. In Florence, the Guelfo party split into two parts: the whites (bianchi, in favor of the Emperor) and the blacks (neri, in favor of the Pope). Dante was a white guelfo. The years around 1300 were the ones in which political fights between whites and blacks became stronger and more dramatic In this period (especially between 1280 and 1310) a new poetical movement was born: the Stilnovo (the n
They reach the tip of the funnel at the center of the earth where the directions up and down are reversed, and find a small tunnel cut through the rock that leads them out on the other side of the earth, directly opposite Jerusalem, at the foot of Mount Purgatory. They climb the mount and at its top they find the earthly Paradise, the Eden from which our first parents were expelled when they turned aside from a relation of loving obedience to God and of loving trust in Him. There Beatrice meets Dante, and conducts him upward through the planetary spheres. Finally, he soars beyond the planets, beyond the stars, and beholds the whole company of Heaven assembled together, and is given a vision of the glory of God Himself (Lit. Network). When he began writing his masterpiece, La Commedia, no one knows. (A “comedy as traditionally defined, is a story that “begins in sorrow and ends in joy”. Dante originally called it simply “The Comedy.” Later Italian writers speaking of the work called it “The Divine Comedy,” by which name it is usually known today.) He apparently finished the first of the three parts by 1314, and the last only shortly before
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