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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]
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
Piccarda was born into the Donati family, the prominent Florentine family leading the Black Guelph faction. She was the sister of Corso Donati, leader of the Black Guelphs, and Forese Donati, known for his friendship with Dante. It is also likely that Dante and Piccarda knew each other well.
Forese is described as being associated with his immoral family name, who are known to be infamous for their ways with money. [4] There is an excerpt from Nella's mother in the tenzone in which she describes how upset she is that Forese has wasted Nella's dowry. [5] His wife is described as being constantly cold, since Forese cannot please her ...
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.