The Poems of the Vita Nuova and Convito of Dante Alighieri

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Cambridge 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...

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Born Dante Alighieri in the spring of 1265 in Florence, Italy, he was known familiarly as Dante. His family was noble, but not wealthy, and Dante received the education accorded to gentlemen, studying poetry, philosophy, and theology. His first major work was Il Vita Nuova, The New Life. This brief collection of 31 poems, held together by a narrative sequence, celebrates the virtue and honor of Beatrice, Dante's ideal of beauty and purity. Beatrice was modeled after Bice di Folco Portinari, a beautiful woman Dante had met when he was nine years old and had worshipped from afar in spite of his own arranged marriage to Gemma Donati. Il Vita Nuova has a secure place in literary history: its vernacular language and mix of poetry with prose were new; and it serves as an introduction to Dante's masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, in which Beatrice figures prominently. The Divine Comedy is Dante's vision of the afterlife, broken into a trilogy of the Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise. Dante is given a guided tour of hell and purgatory by Virgil, the pagan Roman poet whom Dante greatly admired and imitated, and of heaven by Beatrice. The Inferno shows the souls who have been condemned to eternal torment, and included here are not only mythical and historical evil-doers, but Dante's enemies. The Purgatory reveals how souls who are not irreversibly sinful learn to be good through a spiritual purification. And The Paradise depicts further development of the just as they approach God. The Divine Comedy has been influential from Dante's day into modern times. The poem has endured not just because of its beauty and significance, but also because of its richness and piety as well as its occasionally humorous and vulgar treatment of the afterlife. In addition to his writing, Dante was active in politics. In 1302, after two years as a priore, or governor of Florence, he was exiled because of his support for the white guelfi, a moderate political party of which he was a member. After extensive travels, he stayed in Ravenna in 1319, completing The Divine Comedy there, until his death in 1321.

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