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Dante Alighieri was an Italian poet, prose writer, literary theorist, moral philosopher, and political thinker. He is best known for the monumental epic poem La commedia, later named La divina commedia (The Divine Comedy).
- Dante's Intellectual Development and Public Career
Dante - Poet, Philosopher, Politics: A second contemporary...
- The Divine Comedy
The basic structural component of The Divine Comedy is the...
- Legacy and Influence
Dante - Poet, Divine Comedy, Italian Literature: The...
- Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno (born 1548, Nola, near Naples [Italy]—died...
- Boethius
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (born 470–475? ce,...
- The Banquet
In Italian literature: Dante (1265–1321). 1304–07; The...
- Dante's Intellectual Development and Public Career
9 sie 2023 · Dante was an Italian poet and moral philosopher best known for the epic poem The Divine Comedy, which comprises sections representing the three tiers of the Christian afterlife: purgatory,...
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Italian poet wrote La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy), his allegory of life and God as revealed to a pilgrim, written in terza rima; Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Paradise), written between 1307 and 1321.
The first formal biography of Dante was the Vita di Dante (also known as Trattatello in laude di Dante), written after 1348 by Giovanni Boccaccio. [71] Although several statements and episodes of it have been deemed unreliable on the basis of modern research, an earlier account of Dante's life and works had been included in the Nuova Cronica of ...
26 lut 2015 · Dante: A Very Short Introduction examines the main themes and issues that run through all of Dante’s work, ranging from autobiography, to understanding God, and the order of the universe. In doing so, it highlights what has made Dante a vital point of reference for modern writers and readers.
12 paź 2020 · Dante's written works are a heady mix of philosophy, politics, and literature. They show in their panoramic inclusion of many fields of knowledge such as classicism and biblical studies, an influence from his one-time mentor Brunetto Latini (c. 1220-1294), the celebrated Florentine scholar and statesman.
Dante studied at the University of Bologna, one of the most famous universities in the medieval world. There, he came under the influence of one of the most famous scholars of the time, Ser Brunetto Latini, who never taught Dante but advised and encouraged him.
