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Elizabeth Kerr Coulson (c. 1819 – 23 January 1876) was an English novelist who published under the pseudonym Roxburghe Lothian.Her two-volume work of historical fiction, Dante and Beatrice from 1282 to 1290: A Romance, was published only three weeks before her death.
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 ...
Dante and Beatrice may refer to: Dante Alighieri and Beatrice Portinari; Dante et Béatrice, an 1890 opera by Benjamin Godard to a libretto by Édouard Blau; Dante and Beatrice from 1282 to 1290: A Romance, a work of historical fiction by Elizabeth Kerr Coulson; Dante and Beatrice, by Henry Holiday, 1883; Dante and Beatrice, a painting by John ...
In January 1374, Boccaccio wrote and delivered a series of lectures on the Comedy. In addition, Boccaccio is included in the work Origine, vita e costumi di Dante Alighieri, where his treatise Trattatello in laude di Dante provides a biography of Dante. [4] Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400) translated, adapted, and explicitly referred to Dante ...
La Vita Nuova contains 42 brief chapters (31 for Guglielmo Gorni) with commentaries on 25 sonnets, one ballata, and four canzoni; one canzone is left unfinished, interrupted by the death of Beatrice Portinari, Dante's lifelong love. Dante's two-part commentaries explain each poem, placing them within the context of his life.
Paradiso (Italian: [paraˈdiːzo]; Italian for "Paradise" or "Heaven") is the third and final part of Dante's Divine Comedy, following the Inferno and the Purgatorio.It is an allegory telling of Dante's journey through Heaven, guided by Beatrice, who symbolises theology.
Dante himself tells us that the prose of the Convivio is "temperate and virile," in contrast to the "fervid and passionate" prose of the Vita Nova; and that while the approach to this in the work of his youth was "like dreaming" the Convivio approaches it subjects soberly and wide awake, often modeling its style on Scholastic authors.
The harpies in Dante's version feed from the leaves of oak trees, which entomb suicides.At the time Canto XIII (or The Wood of Suicides) was written, suicide was considered by the Catholic Church as at least equivalent to murder and a contravention of the Commandment "Thou shalt not kill", and many theologians believed it to be an even deeper sin than murder, as it constituted a rejection of ...