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Dante Alighieri

An exiled and wandering figure during his writing lifetime, Dante Alighieri is now considered Italy's greatest poet -- so much a literary giant that he is generally known by his first name alone.…

Dante Alighieri

(Encyclopedia) Dante AlighieriDante Alighieridănˈtē, Ital. dänˈtā älēgyĕˈrē, 1265–1321, Italian poet, b. Florence. Dante was the author of the Divine Comedy, one of the greatest of literary classics…

Beatrice Portinari

(Encyclopedia) Beatrice PortinariBeatrice Portinaribēˈətrĭs, Ital. bāätrēˈchā pōrtēnäˈrē [key], 1266–90, Florentine woman believed to be the Beatrice of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and Vita nuova…

Trent , city, Italy

(Encyclopedia) Trent, Ital. Trento, Latin Tridentum, city (1991 pop. 101,545), capital of Trentino–Alto Adige and of Trent prov., N Italy, on the Adige River and on the road to the Brenner Pass. It…

Dante's Peak

Director:Roger DonaldsonWriter: Leslie BohemDirector of Photography:Andrzej BartkowiakEditor:Howard SmithMusic:John FrizzellProduction Designer:Dennis WashingtonProducers:Gale Anne Hurd and…

The Divine Comedy: Postscript

Six Sonnets on Dante's Divine...Postscript 'Ich habe unter meinen Papieren ein Blatt gefunden, wo ich die Baukunst eine erstarrte Musik nenne.' Johann Wolfgang Goethe, 1829…

Brewer's: Dante and Beatrice

—i.e. Beatrice Portinari, who was only eight years old when the poet first saw her. His abiding love for her was chaste as snow and pure as it was tender. Beatrice married a nobleman…