Dante Alighieri
DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265–1321), Italian poet, theologian, and philosopher. Dante offered in his Commedia a "sacred poem" of enormous erudition and aesthetic power, wh...
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Dante Alighieri
1265-1321
Italian poet who in his Divine Comedy (1308-21) popularized ideas on geometry and astronomy. Perhaps the most significant literary work of the later Middle Ages, the Divine C...
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Dante Alighieri(1265–1321)
Dante Alighieri, the author of the Divine Comedy, was born in Florence of a middle-class family with some pretensions to nobility. It is likely that he frequented the...
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The Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) wrote "The Divine Comedy," the greatest poetic composition of the Christian Middle Ages and the first masterpiece of world literature written in a modern E...
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Considered the finest poet that Italy has ever produced, Dante is also celebrated as a major influence on western European culture. His masterpiece, La divina commedia (The Divine Comedy), is uni vers...
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The following excerpt discusses the Paolo and Francesca episode in the Inferno. Poggioli's essay originally appeared in a longer form in the June 1957 issue of PMLA.
… Francesca tells...
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In the following essay, Ferrante explains in detail Dante's evolving notion of woman, beginning with Vita Nuova and continuing through Paradiso.
Although he begins as a lyric poet within the...
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In the following essay, Dante's treatment of poets in his writings is perceived to serve his political themes.
The stature Dante grants Sordello in the Comedy has long puzzled critics, since...
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In the following essay, Dante's terza rima is seen as a model for the "synthesis of time and meaning into history."
The perennial problem in literary interpretation is the prob...
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In his essay, Harrison demonstrates that Guido's monologue in Inferno XXVII expresses Dante's comic world-view, in which earthly life is viewed as Hell.
For years I have wondered what...
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Dante Alighieri was one of the greatest authors of the Middle Ages in Europe. He has written great works like The Divine Comedy and De Vulgari Eloquentia. Most facts of his life are found from researc...
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The Medieval and Renaissance time periods were rather different from each other. Although the public had many conflicting opinions, both time periods produced extremely talented writers. The author...
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Dante Alighieri is a poet who lived in Florence, Italy and is the author of many very important poetic works. Some of his writings include the Divine Comedy and Paridiso. The Divine Comedy is a three ...
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Roberto Benigni was reciting a page from Dante's poem on love and the afterlife when he thought hell had come to Earth.Shots rang out Tuesday night as the Oscar-winning actor-director was performin...
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Question 1 of 10:Which order of monks was established in 1209 under the direction of a pacifist, nature-loving saint?The Benedictine
The Franciscan
The CistercianThe DominicanQuestion 2 of 10:Which...
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...Si lunga tratta
di gente, ch'io non avrei mai creduto
che morte tanta n'avesse disfatta.
...So long a train
of people, that I should never have believed
death h...
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As you may have been able to tell from The New York Times' diabetes series (following its series on gold), it's Pulitzer season and everyone's trying to jump on the multi-part bandwagon. Even Marke...
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Back when summer actually meant a few months of relaxing and down time to New Yorkers, one of the most treasured rituals was the weekly trip to the neighborhood bookstore, to choose a new book (or ...
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Back when summer actually meant a few months of relaxing and down time to New Yorkers, one of the most treasured rituals was the weekly trip to the neighborhood bookstore, to choose a new book (or ...
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Dante Alighieri
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Dante Alighieri (1265–1321)
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Critical Essay by Renato Poggioli
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Guard wounded at Benigni show in Italy
