Biography Of Dante
(Giorgio Petrocchi)
Dante was born in to the oldest family of Florence in 1265. His mother died when he was five and the father when Dante was eighteen years old. Dante had an education that became his position.Amongst many things he studied rhetoric which he had use for in both his occupations :Poet and politician. As a member of an influencial family he soon gained access to the political world of Florence. It was now he acquired his insights in the the intrigues and games of power which he later came to lash so fiercely in his great work, The Comedy.Dante wrote The Comedy during his long exile escaping the threat of a deathsentence. He made repeated attempts to appease his old enemies to reverse the banishment but all his efforts vere in vain. Most of this time he spent in Verona, where he was a respected citizen, and in Ravenna where he finally died in 1321. It has been said that Dante died as a homeless and bitter man without ever seeing hes beloved Florence again.Dante Alighieri's epic poetic masterpiece, "La Divina Commedia" (the Divine Comedy),was probably begun in 1306 and completed in the year of Dante's death, in 1321. This verse work, in terza rima, consists of three major divisions, representing the three realms of the Christian afterlife: Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Paradise). The poem's story tells of Dante's imaginary travels to the nether reaches of Hell and Purgatory with the Roman poet Virgil as his guide. It continues with Dante ascending into Heaven with his beloved, Beatrice, who acts as his guide there. In each of the three realms, Dante meets with former friends, and encounters mythological and historical figures, each representing a particular virtue or fault.The work is composed of three major divisions, called cantica, and thirty-three subdivisions, called cantos, the exception being the first cantica, Inferno, which has one additional canto serving as a general introduction to the entire poem. Thus the work has one hundred cantos.
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