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Dante's father was Alighiero di Bellincione, a businessman and moneylender, [21] and Dante's mother was Bella, probably a member of the Abati family, a noble Florentine family. [22] She died when Dante was not yet ten years old. Alighiero soon married again, to Lapa di Chiarissimo Cialuffi.
Beatrice "Bice" di Folco Portinari [1] (Italian: [beaˈtriːtʃe portiˈnaːri]; 1265 – 8 or 19 June 1290) was an Italian woman who has been commonly identified as the principal inspiration for Dante Alighieri's Vita Nuova, and is also identified with the Beatrice who acts as his guide in the last book of his narrative poem the Divine Comedy (La Divina Commedia), Paradiso, and during the ...
Nino Visconti, last Judge of Gallura, meets Dante Alighieri in Ante-Purgatory. Beatrice is now remembered primarily due to her presence in Dante's Divine Comedy.In Purgatorio, the second canticle of the poem, Dante and Virgil meet Nino Visconti in Ante-Purgatory, or the area outside St. Peter’s gate, which is reserved for people who neglected their spiritual and religious undertakings for ...
Candor lucis aeternae (Splendor of Light Eternal) is an apostolic letter that was issued by Pope Francis on 25 March 2021. The letter was written in honor of the 700th anniversary of the death of the Italian poet Dante Alighieri and is one of several papal letters to the author, with previous ones having written by Benedict XV, Paul VI, John Paul II, and Benedict XVI.
An English translation by Frederick William Church was published in 1878, in Dante, an essay by his father, Richard William Church. A second translation by Philip Wicksteed was printed for private circulation in 1896 and by The Temple Classics in London in 1904.
The church was consecrated on the day of Saint Margaret. The main patron families of the church in the 13th and 14th century, who had chapels in the church, were the Cerchi, the Donati, and the Adimari families. The church contains a fine altarpiece of the Madonna and Four Saints by Neri di Bicci. In the entrance is a chapel erected by Jacopo ...
Mother of the Church (Latin: Mater Ecclesiae) is a title given to Mary in the Catholic Church, as officially declared by Pope Paul VI in 1964. The title first appeared in the 4th century writings of Saint Ambrose of Milan , as rediscovered by Hugo Rahner . [ 1 ]
Dante, poised between the mountain of purgatory and the city of Florence, a detail of a painting by Domenico di Michelino, Florence 1465.. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri is a long allegorical poem in three parts (or canticas): the Inferno (), Purgatorio (), and Paradiso (), and 100 cantos, with the Inferno having 34, Purgatorio having 33, and Paradiso having 33 cantos.