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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 ...
[2] Many of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's paintings, including Dante's Dream, had as their subject the Italian poet Dante Alighieri, and this interest is the likely inspiration for Holiday's painting. [2] It is based on Dante's 1294 autobiographical work La Vita Nuova which describes his love for Beatrice Portinari .
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 ...
Beata Beatrix is a painting completed in several versions by Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The painting depicts Beatrice Portinari from Dante Alighieri's 1294 poem La Vita Nuova at the moment of her death. The first version is oil on canvas completed in 1870.
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.
Gemma Donati's life is relatively undocumented. Throughout his life, Dante never mentioned Donati. Instead he wrote prolifically about his love-interest and muse Beatrice Portinari, whom he met when he was nine. [1] [2] Donati was born to Manetto and Maria Donati in around 1267, two years after her future husband, Dante Alighieri.
The meeting of Dante and Beatrice, Henry Holiday. Beatrice (1266–1290): Dante's idealised childhood love, Beatrice Portinari. In the poem, she awaits the poet in Paradise, replaces Virgil as Dante's guide, and conducts him through the heavens. She symbolises Heavenly Wisdom.
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.