The Poems of the Vita Nuova and Convito of Dante AlighieriCambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009 - Broj stranica: 326 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Onorate 1' altissimo poeta. Inferno, 4. ' E se il mondo sapesse il cor eh' egli ebbe, Mendicando sua vita a frusto a frusto, Assai lo loda e pi lo loderebbe. Paradiso, C. Ma tratter del suo stato gentile, Donne e donzelle amorose con vui. Che non cosa da parlarne altrui. Vita Nuova. chapter{Section 4DANTE ALIGHIERI. Born 1265.?Died 1321. The following notice is extracted from the chronicle of Giovanni Villani (born l280? died 1348), an historian celebrated for simplicity and candour, the contemporary and fellow-citizen of Dante, and belonging to an opposite political faction. In the month of July of this year, 1321, died Dante, at the city of Ravenna in Romagna, soon after his return from an embassy to Venice, undertaken in the service of the Lords of Polenta with whom he resided; and he was buried in front of the entrance of the cathedral of Ravenna, with the honours becoming a great poet and philosopher. He died in exile at about 56 years of age. This Dante was of an honourable and ancient family, citizens of Florence, of the quarter ' Porta San Piero;' and the cause of his banishment was this; that when Charles of Valois of the house of France came to Florence in l301, and expelled the faction of the Bianchi, Dante was one of the principal governors of our city and belonged to that party, although he was a Guelph; therefore, without having any other fault, he was expelled with the rest of his party, and Delle Histurie de' suoi tempi, di Giovanni Villani, Cittadino Fiorentinn, libro ix. cap. 135: Del Poeta Dante e come mart. banished from Florence. After which he went and studied at Bologna, Paris, and many other places in Europe. Although a layman, he was profoundly learned in almost every science, and was distinguished a... |