5/22/2023 0 Comments Dante inferno bookHis love for Beatrice would be his reason for poetry and for living, together with his political passions. They were married around 1285, but by this time Dante was in love with another woman, Beatrice Portinari, whom he first met when he was only nine. When Dante was 12, he was promised in marriage to Gemma di Manetto Donati, daughter of Manetto Donati, member of the powerful Donati family. He was the son of Alighiero di Bellincione and Bella degli Abati, the latter of which died when Dante was not yet ten years old.ĭante’s family had loyalties to the Guelphs, a political alliance that supported the papacy and that was completely opposed to the Ghibellines, who were backed by the Holy Roman Emperor. 3 Dante’s masterpiece: The Divine Comedyĭante Alighieri, in full, Durante degli Alighieri, was born in Florence in 1265 and died in Ravenna in 1321.
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