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The Donati family was a wealthy family in medieval Florence. She was betrothed to Dante in 1277 [3] when he was either 11 [4] or 12 years old. Her dowry was only 200 florins, which suggests that Dante's family had no substantial assets by the mid-1270s. Nevertheless, an alliance with the Donati family through marriage was socially prestigious. [5]
Nella Donati (possibly also known as Giovanna or Giovannella) was a medieval noblewoman from Florence, Italy. [1] She is primarily known because of Dante Alighieri's treatment of her relationship to her husband, Forese Donati, in the Divine Comedy and in a series of poems Dante exchanged with Forese.
Michele Zanche [a] (1203 - Sassari, 1275) was an Italian politician, best known as a character in Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, where he is mentioned in Canto XXII of Inferno, in the fifth bolgia of the eighth circle, among the barrators, [b] together with Friar Gomita [], vicar of Nino Visconti judge of Gallura.
Dante's father was Alighiero di Bellincione, a businessman and moneylender, [22] and Dante's mother was Bella, probably a member of the Abati family, a noble Florentine family. [23] She died when Dante was not yet ten years old. Alighiero soon married again, to Lapa di Chiarissimo Cialuffi.
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 ...
The master director, who is being feted with Berlin Film Festival’s Honorary Golden Bear on Tuesday night, has a small but powerful role playing an elderly sage who influences Dante Alighieri ...
The Malaspina family were a noble family who were hospitable to Dante. He had a positive view of the family not just because they welcomed him but because he deemed them to be virtuous. Moreover, Alagia's husband was Dante's patron and friend, and Dante celebrated him in the Divine Comedy as "Vapor of Val di Magra" (Inferno 24.145) in which he ...
Dante Alighieri had likely learned of the da Romano family through Guido Cavalcanti, since Guido’s father had hosted one of Cunizza’s legal proceedings. Dante also stayed at the court of the degli Scagligeri in Verona, the family who succeeded Ezzelino III after his death. [8] Cunizza da Romano appears in Canto IX of Dante’s Paradiso. She ...