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Dante has escaped his home city of Florence. In 1306, as a 41-year-old exile at a castle in Lunigiana, he begins the work that would take the remainder of his life to finish. Brunetto Latini was Dante's teacher. In the spring of 1302, Dante is condemned to death in absentia.
Dante gazes at Mount Purgatory in an allegorical portrait by Agnolo Bronzino, painted c. 1530. The Divine Comedy is composed of 14,233 lines that are divided into three cantiche (singular cantica) – Inferno (), Purgatorio (), and Paradiso () – each consisting of 33 cantos (Italian plural canti).
Dante is depicted (bottom, centre) in Andrea di Bonaiuto's 1365 fresco Church Militant and Triumphant in the Santa Maria Novella church, Florence. In 1373, a little more than half a century after Dante's death, the Florentine authorities softened their attitude to him and decided to establish a department for the study of the Divine Comedy.
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 ...
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A complete listing and criticism of all English translations of at least one of the three cantiche (parts) was made by Cunningham in 1966. [12] The table below summarises Cunningham's data with additions between 1966 and the present, many of which are taken from the Dante Society of America's yearly North American bibliography [13] and Società Dantesca Italiana [] 's international ...
An Arizona pastor was busted for secretly recording videos of women using his church’s bathroom after the camera fell out of a dryer, according to police. Arturo Laguna, ...
A TV Dante is a 1990 mini-series directed by Tom Phillips and Peter Greenaway. It covers eight of the 34 cantos in Dante Alighieri 's Inferno , part of his 14th century epic poem Divine Comedy . Peter Greenaway and Tom Phillips won the Prix Italia for A TV Dante , their ambitious project to produce a video version of Dante's Inferno .