Beatrice Portinari

Beatrice Portinari is seen throughout the book of “Dante The Divine Comedy”. She originally meets Dante in the year 1274, on May Day in Florence, Italy. Beatrice is from a wealthy Florentine family and was eight years old the first time they meet and did not speak a word to each other (Cotter, 21). She was the principle inspiration for Dante’s La Vita Nuova, a book about Dante’s love connection to her (Passages to the Past). Dante and Beatrice have only met twice, but Dante was so touched by both

1. IL POSTINO Beatrice "Bice" di Folco Portinari (1266–1290) was a Florentine woman who has been commonly identified as the principal inspiration for Dante Alighieri’s Vita Nuova (New Life) in which Dante expresses the medieval idea of courtly love (see next paragraph for details on this). In Vita Nuova, Dante tries to write love poetry that was less centered on the self and more aimed at love as such: he intended to elevate courtly love poetry, many of its tropes and its language, into sacred

was only described, not widely accepted and used. According to Hutchinson’s Biography Database, “Dante was born in Florence, where in 1274 he first met and fell in love with Beatrice Portinari. His love for her survived her marriage to another man and her death in 1290 at the age of 24” (2011, para. 2). Dante’s love for Beatrice caused him to be led to God. This religious affiliation later became the subject of his renowned poem. Rebelliously for his time, Dante did not agree with all of the teachings

Dante has described a woman figure at the moment of her death, based on the image of Beatrice Portinari from Dante Alighieri’s poem La Vita Nuova. The poem tells the story of Dante’s one-sided love for Beatrice Portinari and later on his sadness over her premature death. Rossetti was inspired by this story and drawn the artwork which represents his imaginary of Beatrice described from Dante’s text, shows Beatrice in the visionary act of her own death and also commemorates Rossetti’s late wife and

“Stilnovo”, and was basically a style where poets would discuss their feelings of love and theorize about love. 3. Dante’s wife, Gemma Donati, does not have as large an influence on his work as Beatrice Portinari, his first love. Many of Dante’s poems in the Vita Nuova are based on his love for Beatrice and the passion that he feels for her. 4. Dante held the occupations of a patrician in Florence, a poet and author in Florence, a soldier at the battles of Sienese and Campaldino, a student at

Domenico di Michelino: Dante’s Divine Comedy & Painting Introduction: Domenico di Michelino (1417-1491), an Italian painter and medieval poet was known best for his epic poem, The Divine Comedy, which includes sections representing the three tiers of the Christian afterlife: Purgatory (Purgatorio), Hell (Inferno), and Paradise (Paradiso). This poem was a great work of medieval literature and was considered the greatest work of literature composed in Italian. The Divine Comedy was a Christian

got married sometime around 1285, but there was just one problem. Dante had proceeded to fall in love with another woman- Beatrice Portinari, who would become a huge significance to his life and especially his work, she was very influential to him. Dante later went on and composed The New Life (La Vita Nuovo) using Beatrice as an ideal. After the unexpected death of Beatrice, Dante became quite intrigued in studying philosophy and the tactics and

advised and encouraged Dante. His name was Brunetto Latini. He appears in Inferno. Only at twelve years old, Dante was to marry a girl named Gemma Donati. They both married but what the problem was that Dante loved another woman. Her name was Beatrice Portinari. Dante’s father was very disappointed in his son because he chose this girl to marry his son

late May or early June, 1265. His childhood was somewhat troubling because of the early death of his mother and then his father when he was 18. He managed to get through these bad occurrences and fell in love with a Florentine noblewoman named Beatrice Portinari in 1274 but she also died not long afterwards. He once said that the most significant occurrence of his childhood was his meeting with his

Perfection. Society has been taught to strive for that and normally perfection is accompanied by a religion that exemplifies it and the reward tends to be unimaginably amazing. The problem is that no one is perfect, and because there is no way to measure that we try our best or we give up and follow other paths. Dante Alighieri, born in Florence, Italy in 1265, was born into a very power hungry age. Morality was not very high on someone’s to-do list. In the Divine Comedy Dante makes a point of writing