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The first formal biography of Dante was the Vita di Dante (also known as Trattatello in laude di Dante), written after 1348 by Giovanni Boccaccio. [70] Although several statements and episodes of it have been deemed unreliable on the basis of modern research, an earlier account of Dante's life and works had been included in the Nuova Cronica of ...
Convivio (Italian pronunciation: [koɱˈviːvjo];) ("The Banquet") [2] is an unfinished work written by Dante Alighieri roughly between 1304 and 1307. It consists of four books, or, " tratatti": a prefatory one, plus three books that each include a canzone (long lyrical poem) and a prose allegorical interpretation or commentary of the poem that ...
The Dante Encyclopedia, edited by Richard Lansing, [1] is a reference book for the life and works of Dante, especially the Divine Comedy. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Originally published in hardback in 2000, the book appeared in paperback in 2010.
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The Enciclopedia Dantesca, published 1970–1975 by the Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, in six volumes, under the general editorship of Umberto Bosco, is considered the reference book in Italian language about the life and works of Dante, [1] described as a "monumental" work [1] [2]
Cacciaguida degli Elisei (c. 1098 – c. 1148) was an Italian crusader and the great-great-grandfather of Dante Alighieri. Little is known about his life. He was born in Florence, and two documents from 1189 and 1201 mention his existence. The 1189 document lists his sons as Preitenetto and Alighiero, the latter being Dante's great-grandfather ...
He reached international fame due to his literary activity, which culminated in 1869 with the publication of a study about the life, the epoch, and the work of Dante Alighieri, and the subsequent annotated edition of Dante's Divine Comedy in four volumes, the first of which was published in 1874 and the last in 1890.
Monarchia (1700-50s) Monarchia, often called De Monarchia (Classical Latin: [deː mɔˈnarkʰɪ.aː], Ecclesiastical Latin: [dɛ moˈnarkja]; "(On) Monarchy"), is a Latin treatise on secular and religious power by Dante Alighieri, who wrote it between 1312 and 1313.