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Dante (Alighieri)(born c. May 21–June 20, 1265, Florence—died Sept. 13/14, 1321, Ravenna) Italian poet. Dante was of noble ancestry, and his life was shaped by the conflict between papal and imperial partisans (the Guelfs and Ghibellines). When an opposing political faction within the Guelfs (Dante's party) gained ascendancy, he was exiled (1302) from Florence, to which he never returned. His life was given direction by his spiritual love for Beatrice Portinari (d. 1290), to whom he dedicated most of his poetry. His great friendship with Guido Cavalcanti shaped his later career as well. La Vita Nuova (1293?) celebrates Beatrice in verse. In his difficult years of exile, he wrote the verse collection The Banquet (c. 1304–07); De vulgari eloquentia (1304–07; “Concerning Vernacular Eloquence”), the first theoretical discussion of the Italian literary language; and On Monarchy (1313?), a major Latin treatise on medieval political philosophy. He is best known for the monumental epic poem The Divine Comedy (written c. 1308–21; originally titled simply Commedia), a profoundly Christian vision of human temporal and eternal destiny. It is an allegory of universal human destiny in the form of a pilgrim's journey through hell and purgatory, guided by the Roman poet Virgil, and then to Paradise, guided by Beatrice. By writing it in Italian rather than Latin, Dante almost singlehandedly made Italian a literary language, and he stands as one of the towering figures of European literature. Dante full name Dante Alighieri. 1265--1321, Italian poet famous for La Divina Commedia (?1309--?1320), an allegorical account of his journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, guided by Virgil and his idealized love Beatrice. His other works include La Vita Nuova (?1292), in which he celebrates his love for Beatrice Dante travels through Hell, Purgatory, Paradise. [Ital. Lit.: Divine Comedy, Magill I, 211–213] See : Journey
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they actually come face to face with both Dante Alighieri and Sir Thomas
Aquinas, thanks to wizardry and some good luck. To Mary, "the living fount
of hope" (Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, XXXIII, 12), we entrust our
Lenten journey, so that she may lead us to her Son. For "The Trivium," first shown at Pomona College
in 2001 and then the following year at Galerie Kamm in Berlin, Arceneaux
used his trademark pencil drawings on vellum, along with found images,
to spirit Dante Alighieri, Socrates, rapper Pharoahe Monch, and jazz
giants Pharoah Sanders and Thelonious Monk into a dizzying exploration
of linguistics and improvisation that took its title from a medieval
term denoting the three pillars of a classical education (grammar,
logic, and rhetoric). |
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