Dante Alighieri

The greatest Italian poet and one of the most important writers of European literature. Dante is best known for the epic poem COMMEDIA, c. 1310-14, later named LA DIVINA COMMEDIA. It has profoundly affected not only the religious imagination but all subsequent allegorical creation of imaginary worlds in literature. Dante spent much of his life traveling from one city to another. This had perhaps more to do with the restless times than his wandering character or fixation on the Odyssey. However, his Commedia can also be called a spiritual travel book.



Dante Alighieri was born into a Florentine family of noble ancestry. Little is known about Dante's childhood. His mother, Bella degli Abati, died when he was seven years old. His father, Alighiero II, made his living by money-lending and renting of property. After the death of his wife he remarried, but died in the early 1280s, before the future poet reached manhood. Brunetto Latini, a man of letters and a politician, became a father figure for Dante, but later in his Commedia Dante placed Latini in Hell, into the seventh circle, among those who were guilty of "violence against nature" - sodomy.

In 1289 in the Florentine army Dante participated in a battle against the Arentines. He also entered politics and joined the White (Bianchi) Guelphs, one of the rival factions within the Guelph party. In 1295 he entered the Guild of member Apothecaries, to which philosophers could belong, and which opened for him the doors to public office. Dante served the commune in various councils and was ambassador to San Gimignano in 1300 and then to Rome. In June 1300 he was elected a prior, and the following year he was appointed superintendent of roads and road repair.

Најголем впечаток ми оставија делата:

LA VITA NUOVA, c. 1293 - The New Life - Uusi elämä
IL CONVIVIO, 1307 (unfinished) - Dante's Convivio
DE VULGARI ELOQUENTIA, 1304-07 - Concerning Vernacular Eloquence
LA DIVINA COMMEDIA, c. 1310-14 - Inferno (finished before 1316), Purgatorio (finished before 1320), Paradiso, (finished before 1321) - The Divine Comedy (trans. by Henry Longfellow) - Jumalainen näytelmä (suom. Eino Leino 1912-14 ja Elina Vaara 1963) - film Dante's Inferno (1935), dir. by Harry Lachman, starring Spencer Tracy, Claire Trevor, sets by Willy Pogany, inspired by Gustave Doré
DE MONARCHIA, c. 1313 - On Monarchy
ECLOGUES, 1319
QUAESTIO DE SITU AQUE ET TERRE, 1320
RIME, 1943 (ed. by Daniele Mattalia; Gianfranco Contini in 1946; Michele Barbi and Francesco Maggini in 1956)
OPERE, 1944
The Portable Dante, 1947 (ed. by Paolo Milano)
LE OPERE DI DANTE, 1960
Letters, 1966
Dante's Lyric Poetry, 1967 (2 vols.)

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