"love poems in Tuscan, which was not unprecedented; the vernacular had been regularly used for lyric works before, during all the thirteenth century. However, Dante's commentary on his own work is also in the vernacular—both in the ""Vita Nuova"" and in the ""Convivio""—instead of the Latin that was almost universally used. Dante Alighieri Durante degli Alighieri (), commonly known by his short name Dante Alighieri or simply as Dante (; , ; – 1321), was a major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages. His ""Divine Comedy"", originally called ' (modern Italian: ""Commedia"") and later christened ' by Giovanni Boccaccio,"
"characters seeking insignificant aims and end with some accomplishment of the aims which either lightens the initial baseness or reveals the insignificance of the aims. The ""Divine Comedy"" ( ) is a long narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321. It is widely considered to be the preeminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of world literature. The poem's imaginative vision of the afterlife is representative of the medieval world-view as it had developed in the Western Church by the 14th century. It helped"
"others used their own language, the Florentine vernacular descended from Latin, in composing their greatest works. The oldest literary pieces written in Florentine go as far back as the 13th century. Florence's literature fully blossomed in the 14th century, when not only Dante with his ""Divine Comedy"" (1306–1321) and Petrarch, but also poets such as Guido Cavalcanti and Lapo Gianni composed their most important works. Dante's masterpiece is the ""Divine Comedy"", which mainly deals with the poet himself taking an allegoric and moral tour of Hell, Purgatory and finally Heaven, during which he meets numerous mythological or real characters of"
"writes that ""The Divine Comedy"" ""is everything: a personal confession, a vast love lyric, an encyclopedia of the knowledge of the Middle Ages ... and of course quite simply an absorbing narrative.” ""The Divine Comedy"" is made up of 14,233 lines, divided into three parts; Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso. Thomas G. Bergin's English translation casts Dante’s poem into blank verse. It begins with these lines: The chapter written by Bergin in the book, ""My Harvard, My Yale"", recounts how from an early age, he had a deep and abiding appreciation for Yale University. He was born in New Haven, not"
"Donato Sacerdote Donato Sacerdote (, 1820–1883) was an Italian and Jewish poet. Sacerdote was born at Fossano in 1820. He died there on 27 November 1883. Passionately devoted to the classics, Sacerdote from his early youth applied himself to the comparative study of the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides and those of Vittorio Alfieri and Del Monti. Among Sacerdote's better-known dramas are ""Bianca Cappello,"" which was represented with great success at the Alfieri Theater, Turin, in 1874; ""Cola di Rienzo""; ""Catilina,"" a tragedy in five acts; and ""Eglon,"" a dramatic poem in five acts, relying heavily on Biblical inspiration."
"for having exiled from Florence Dante Alighieri, the famous poet, while serving as Podestà of that city (1301–1302). Dante took vengeance on him by giving Cante's disguised name to Rubicante, one of the Malebranche demons the poet encounters in the bolgia of barratry, as described in his masterwork the ""Divine Comedy"". Frederic Leighton was reportedly inspired by Cante dei Gabrielli's life when he painted his ""Condottiere"" (1871-1872), today at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Cante dei Gabrielli Cante dei Gabrielli di Gubbio (c. 1260 – c. 1335) was an Italian nobleman and condottiero. Cante was born in Gubbio to"
"establish the Tuscan language, in which it is written, as the standardized Italian language. It is divided into three parts: ""Inferno"", ""Purgatorio"", and ""Paradiso"". The narrative describes Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise or Heaven, while allegorically the poem represents the soul's journey towards God. Dante draws on medieval Christian theology and philosophy, especially Thomistic philosophy and the ""Summa Theologica"" of Thomas Aquinas. Consequently, the ""Divine Comedy"" has been called ""the ""Summa"" in verse"". In Dante's work, Virgil is presented as human reason and Beatrice is presented as divine knowledge. The work was originally simply titled ""Comedia"" (so also"
"in the fourteenth century, when the ""Divine Comedy"" was published; the work, by Dante Alighieri, prominently features Virgil as the main character's guide through Hell. Notably, in the second book ""Purgatorio"", Dante and Virgil meet the poet Statius, who, having ""read a hidden meaning in lines of Virgil's own"" (that is, ""Eclogue"" 4.57), was allowed passage into Purgatory, and eventually Heaven. (This legend had developed earlier in the Middle Ages, but Dante's reference popularized it). Bourne argues that Dante's inclusion of Statius's conversion through Virgil's poem is proof enough that Dante, like those before him, believed Virgil to have been"
"biography of Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), author of the ""Divine Comedy"", who Villani described as haughty, disdainful, and reserved. In his revised ""Cronica"" of 1322, Villani shortened Dante's biography and the amount of quotations taken from his ""Divine Comedy"". Villani's actions are explained by Richard H. Lansing and Teodolinda Barolini, who write: ""Evidently two decades after the poet's death a conservative writer closely identified with the Florentine state still felt obliged to distance himself from the most outspoken critic of the basis of that state's prestige."" Historian Louis Green writes that the ""Cronica"" was written with three general assumptions about morality"
"Sacerdote was also an accomplished writer of sonnets, odes, and songs. Donato Sacerdote Donato Sacerdote (, 1820–1883) was an Italian and Jewish poet. Sacerdote was born at Fossano in 1820. He died there on 27 November 1883. Passionately devoted to the classics, Sacerdote from his early youth applied himself to the comparative study of the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides and those of Vittorio Alfieri and Del Monti. Among Sacerdote's better-known dramas are ""Bianca Cappello,"" which was represented with great success at the Alfieri Theater, Turin, in 1874; ""Cola di Rienzo""; ""Catilina,"" a tragedy in five acts; and ""Eglon,"""
"Piccarda Piccarda Donati was a 13th-century Italian noblewoman. She appears as a character in Dante's classic ""Divine Comedy"". Piccarda, sister of Corso Donati and of Dante's friend Forese Donati, is the first character Dante encounters in Paradise. She is on the Sphere of the Moon, the lowest sphere of Heaven. Piccarda explains to Dante that her placement is due to ""vows neglected and, in part, no longer valid."" When she was alive, Piccarda, a nun, was forcibly removed from her convent by her brother Corso, in order to marry her to a Florentine man and further her family's political interests."
"Jacopo Alighieri Jacopo Alighieri (1289–1348) was an Italian poet, the son of Dante Alighieri, whom he followed in his exile. Jacopo's most famous work is his sixty-chapter ""Dottrinale"". Born in 1289 in Florence, Jacopo was the son of Dante Alighieri and his wife, Gemma di Manetto Donati. He was exiled from Florence with his father and brothers Giovanni and Pietro in 1315. He subsequently traveled to Ravenna, where he may have lived with his father. Dante died in 1321, and Jacopo sent a copy of the ""Divine Comedy"" to Guido da Polenta, the lord of the city. In 1325, he"
"Benvenuto Rambaldi da Imola Benvenuto Rambaldi da Imola, or simply and perhaps more accurately Benvenuto da Imola () (1320? – 1388), was an Italian scholar and historian, a lecturer at Bologna. He is now best known for his commentary on Dante's ""Divine Comedy."" He was born in Imola, into a family of legal officers. In 1361–2 he was working for Gómez Albornoz, governor of Bologna and nephew of Cardinal Egidio Albornoz. In 1365 he went on a diplomatic mission on behalf of the city, to Avignon and Pope Urban V. At the time members of the Alidosi family dominated Imola,"
"and author, St. Catherine of Siena, accepted him as a spiritual director because of his burning passion for the Church and for the revival of religious life. He was born ""Raymond della Vigna"" about 1330 in Capua (then part of the Kingdom of Naples), a member of a prominent family of that city, and was a descendant of Pietro della Vigna (a figure mentioned in Dante's ""Divine Comedy""). In 1350, while a student of law at the University of Bologna, he entered the Dominican Order. For the next twenty-five years he worked as a spiritual director or as a teacher"
"in 1919 that Dante Alighieri's ""Divine Comedy"", considered the greatest epic of Italian literature, derived many features of and episodes about the hereafter directly or indirectly from Arabic works on Islamic eschatology, such as the ""Hadith"" and the spiritual writings of Ibn Arabi. The ""Kitab al-Miraj"", concerning Muhammad's ascension to Heaven, was translated into Latin in 1264 or shortly before as ""Liber Scale Machometi"", ""The Book of Muhammad's Ladder"". Dante was certainly aware of Muslim philosophy, naming Avicenna and Averroes last in his list of non-Christian philosophers in Limbo, alongside the great Greek and Latin philosophers. How strong the similarities"
"Thomas G. Bergin Thomas Goddard Bergin (November 17, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American scholar of Italian literature, who was “noted particularly for his research on Dante's ""Divine Comedy"" and for its translation.” He was the Sterling Professor of Romance Languages at Yale University, and Master of Timothy Dwight College. He is the first poet to have his words launched into outer space to orbit the earth. He is recognized as an authority on Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch, and the Provençal troubadours, as well as modern Italian writers, including Alberto Moravia, Salvatore Quasimodo, Giovanni Verga, and Giambattista Vico. Bartlett"
"Dante Alighieri's ""Divine Comedy"", written in the early 14th century, merged a medieval world view with classical ideals. Another promoter of the Italian language was Boccaccio with his ""Decameron"". The application of the vernacular did not entail a rejection of Latin, and both Dante and Boccaccio wrote prolifically in Latin as well as Italian, as would Petrarch later (whose ""Canzoniere"" also promoted the vernacular and whose contents are considered the first modern lyric poems). Together the three poets established the Tuscan dialect as the norm for the modern Italian language. The new literary style spread rapidly, and in France influenced"
"Vittorio Sermonti, a scholar dedicated to the study of the Comedy, the hypothesis that this Ciacco is the poet Ciacco dell'Anguillara is not true. Boccaccio, Giovanni. Decameron. Trans. J. G. Nichols. New York: Everyman’s Library/Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. Print. Ciacco Ciacco is one of the characters in the ""Divine Comedy"" by Dante Alighieri that were not yet well defined by historians. This is how he presents himself to Dante when he is in Hell: <poem> «Voi cittadini mi chiamaste Ciacco; per la dannosa colpa de la gola, come tu vedi, a la pioggia mi fiacco.» «Ye citizens were wont to"
"manifests in people at various stages of life. The ""Convivio"", in its autobiographical passages and in the trajectories of its lines of thought, gives us a rich portrait of Dante himself, of great importance for an understanding of his work as a whole, especially the ""Divine Comedy"". Convivio Convivio (; The Banquet) is a work written by Dante Alighieri roughly between 1304 and 1307. This unfinished work of Dante consists of four ""trattati"", or ""books"": a prefatory one, plus three books that each include a canzone (long lyrical poem) and a prose allegorical interpretation or commentary of the poem that"
"Nicholas Dante Nicholas Dante (November 22, 1941 – May 21, 1991) was an American dancer and writer, best known for having co-written the book of the musical ""A Chorus Line"". Born Conrado Morales in New York City to Puerto Rican parents, his early career was spent dancing in the chorus of Broadway musicals such as Applause and Ambassador. In 1974, he was approached by friend Michael Bennett who invited him to the sessions which led to the basis of material for the book of a musical about Broadway ""gypsies"", the dancers who serve as a backdrop for the leading performers."
"regards the conceptions in the 14th century epic poem ""The divine Comedy"". This book was published in 1929 by Van Stockum in The Hague. Its Italian translation ""Il sapere universale di Dante"" came out a year later, published by the Florence publishing house Tipografia Sordomuti. The title page contains lines from 'The Inferno’ section' of ""The divine Comedy"", which Justine altered in her address to the great poet (these are also in the text of her ex-libris): Both editions include her own poem in praise of Dante. Of course she also made a translation for the Italian reader. Justine's epilogue"
"Ichabod Charles Wright Ichabod Charles Wright (11 April 1795 – 14 October 1871) was an English scholar, translator, poet and accountant. He is best known for his translation of important works of Italian literature, notably the works of Dante's ""Divine Comedy"". He was born in Mapperley Hall in 1795, the first child of Ichabod Wright (1767–1862) and Harriet Maria Day (d.1843) and the eldest of their three sons and ten daughters. His grandfather Ichabod Wright (1700–1777) was an ironmonger who founded a bank in Long Row, Nottinghamshire in 1761. Wright studied at Eton College (1808–14) and pursued further education in"
"difficult to sort out from other intentions. Dante was a great poet, the Societa Dantesca Italiana did great work in editing and publishing a usable and affordable text, but the ""Divine Comedy"" was certainly used by the newly unified Italian government (see History of Italy) to encourage a more homogeneous, Tuscan-influenced dialect for the whole peninsula (see Italian language). This relationship between ideology and serious work is particularly ambiguous in the academic fields of historical importance. Much as 19th century science is often treated as the inventor of conceptions of evolution and race which had serious negative political and social"
"of the second book of his Divine Comedy. Most commentators have identified Matilda with the warrior-Countess of Tuscany, the spiritual daughter and dauntless champion of St. Gregory VII, but all agree that beyond the name the two have little or nothing in common. In more places than one the revelations granted to the mystics of Helfta seem in turn to have become the inspirations of the Florentine poet. All writers on Dante recognize his indebtedness to St. Augustine, the Pseudo-Dionysius, St. Bernard, and Richard of St. Victor. These are precisely the writers whose doctrines had been most assimilated by the"
"and a stage musical based on the life of entertainer Al Jolson entitled Jolson Tonight, but never again achieved the success he did with A Chorus Line. Dante died on May 21, 1991, aged 49, from AIDS-related complications in New York City.[2] References Nicholas Dante Nicholas Dante (November 22, 1941 – May 21, 1991) was an American dancer and writer, best known for having co-written the book of the musical ""A Chorus Line"". Born Conrado Morales in New York City to Puerto Rican parents, his early career was spent dancing in the chorus of Broadway musicals such as Applause and"
"Ciacco Ciacco is one of the characters in the ""Divine Comedy"" by Dante Alighieri that were not yet well defined by historians. This is how he presents himself to Dante when he is in Hell: <poem> «Voi cittadini mi chiamaste Ciacco; per la dannosa colpa de la gola, come tu vedi, a la pioggia mi fiacco.» «Ye citizens were wont to call me Ciacco; For the pernicious sin of gluttony, I, as thou seest, am battered by this rain.» ""(Inferno, VI, 52-54)"" </poem> This way introducing himself allows us to interpret it in various ways, but one of the oldest"
"Liborio Angelucci Liborio Angelucci (born 1746, Rome; died 1811, Milan) was an Italian physician and politician. He had an excellent reputation as a physician and obstetrician and as a scholar because he was editor of the first Roman edition of Dante's Divine Comedy. He was among the first in Rome to accept ideas of French Revolution and one of the few who worked for it. He was in contact with de Bassville whose he was the doctor. In May 1794, he was arrested on charges of relationships with France and plotting against Pius VI. Released from Castel Sant'Angelo on medical"
"in central Tuscany and was first formalized in the early 14th century through the works of Tuscan writer Dante Alighieri, written in his native Florentine. Dante's epic poems, known collectively as the ""Commedia,"" to which another Tuscan poet Giovanni Boccaccio later affixed the title ""Divina"", were read throughout the peninsula and his written dialect became the ""canonical standard"" that all educated Italians could understand. Dante is still credited with standardizing the Italian language. In addition to the widespread exposure gained through literature, the Florentine dialect also gained prestige due to the political and cultural significance of Florence at the time"
"of the birth od Dante Alighieri and, to celebrate the event, the painter Giacomo Casa created a large composition whitin the big decorative ceiling frame, showing Italy in the act of crowning the great poet; and six tempera fresco paintings on the walls, with the same number of scenes from the Divine Comedy. Two of these were then replaced in 1867 with others in tempera by Antonio Ermolao Paoletti. In September 1976 the walls and ceiling of this room, renamed the Sala Guidi, were decorated with works by the Venitian painter Virgilio Guidi, which covered the scenes from Dante. The"
"by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) in his work ""La Divina Commedia"", written c.1308 to 1320. Specifically, Asín compares the Muslim religious literature surrounding the night journey [al-'Isra wal-Mi'rag] of Muhammad (from Mecca to Jerusalem and thence up with the prophets through the seven heavens), with Dante's story describing his spiritual journey in which he meets various inhabitants of the afterlife and records their fate. Accordingly, Asín (I) discusses in detail the above night journey in Muslim literature, (II) compares it to episodes in the inferno, the purgatorio, and the paradiso of ""La Divina Commedia"", (III) investigates Muslim influence"
"in November 2005. ""In 1956, Ciardi received the Prix de Rome from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1982, the National Council of Teachers of English awarded him its award for excellence in children's poetry."" He also won American Platform Association's Carl Sandburg Award in 1980. John Ciardi John Anthony Ciardi ( ; ; June 24 (St. John the Baptist's Nativity), 1916 – March 30, (Easter Sunday) 1986) was an Italian-American poet, translator, and etymologist. While primarily known as a poet, he also translated Dante's ""Divine Comedy"", wrote several volumes of children's poetry, pursued etymology, contributed to the"
"calling him one ""of the many celebrated geniuses of whom the Catholic faith can boast"" and the ""pride and glory of humanity"". In 2007, a reconstruction of Dante's face was undertaken in a collaborative project. Artists from Pisa University and engineers at the University of Bologna at Forlì constructed the model, portraying Dante's features as somewhat different from what was once thought. In 2008, the Municipality of Florence officially apologized for expelling Dante 700 years earlier. A celebration was held in 2015 for the 750th anniversary of his birth. The ""Divine Comedy"" describes Dante's journey through Hell (""Inferno""), Purgatory (""Purgatorio""),"
"Giovanni di Buiamonte Giovanni di Buiamonte was a Florentine nobleman who lived in the late 13th century around the time of Giotto and Dante. He was highly esteemed in the Florence of his day as “the sovereign cavalier"", and was chosen for many high offices. On the negative side, he was a gambler who lost great sums at play. Additionally, he is known for being a wicked usurer according to Dante in the Divine Comedy. He was a member of the Becchi family, which means “goats” in Italian. In Dante’s Divine Comedy poem ""Inferno"", Dante says that he saw Giovanni"