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Dante, Writer of Divina Commedia > 
Dante Alighieri was born in 1265 in Florence, Italy. He was exiled from the city for life. For 20 years Dante lived in exile, wandered Europe, and wrote one of the greatest classics in all Western literature, his Divina Commedia. His exile and his desire to go return to Florence would, like his feelings for Beatrice, impact his later writings greatly. In the Divine Comedy, Dante places many Florentine politicians and Catholic figures in various stages of hell, levels of purgatory, or even spheres of heaven. Modern historians, by studying the history of these figures, can learn more about what Dante really intended for his various levels in the Divine Comedy.
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• http://www.italnet.nd.edu/Dante/index.html
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Homer, Greek Poet
No one is exactly sure who Homer was. Theories abound, and some even think he never existed. Regardless, he is traditionally recognized as the original creator of two e... |
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Virgil, Roman Poet
Virgil's most famous and significant contribution to the classical canon is undoubtedly his Aeneid. Indeed, this is the work of Virgil's most influential to the Divine C... |
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Pope Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam 1302
Pope Boniface VIII was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 1294 to 1303. Boniface VIII put forward some of the strongest claims to temporal, as well as spiritual, supr... |
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Beatrice Portinari, Dante
Beatrice Portinari, real name Bice di Folco Portinari was a woman from Florence, Italy, who was the principal inspiration for Dante Alighieri's Vita Nuova. She also appea... |
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Petrarch, Poet
Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca), Italian scholar, poet, and humanist, a major force in the development of the Renaissance, famous for his poems addressed to Laura, an idea... |
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Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio was a Italian author and poet, the greatest of Petrarch's disciples, an important Renaissance humanist in his own right and author of a number of notab... |
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The Divine Comedy, Dante
The Divine Comedy (Italian: Commedia, later christened "Divina" by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321, is widely considere... |
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Chaucer, Father of English Poetry
Geoffrey Chaucer, author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat (courtier), and diplomat. Chaucer is best known as the author of The Canterbury Tales. He is sometimes credited wi... |
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Sandro Botticelli
Sandro Botticelli probably was the most important Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. His most notable work is without a doubt "The Birth of Venus", a huge painting... |
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