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La vita nuova
De vulgari eloquentia
The banquet and the Monarchy
The Divine Comedy
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Important moment of his life

Birth

1274

1285

1289

His most famous works

dante alighieri

"From a little spark may burst a flame"

Dante was an Italian poet, philosopher, political thinker, and writer. He is the author of the epic poem "The Divine Comedy" which had a great impact on the change from medieval to renaissance thought.

1290

1293

1301

1308 - 1321

Death

The Divine Comedy

The banquet and the Monarchy

De vulgari eloquentia

La vita nuova

The Divine Comedy Dante tells his journey with the Roman poet Virgilio (who represents reason and human love) and Beatrice (who represents Divine Wisdom and Divine Love) through hell (repudiation of sin) and purgatory (purification) to finally get to paradise (human and religious happiness).

He was born in Florence, Italy between May 21 and June 21, 1265.

He met and fell in love with Beatriz Portinari. Dante would use Beatriz as inspiration for several works.

He studied at the University of Bologna and was a disciple of the poet Guido Cavalcanti.

He participated in the battle of Campaldino against the Ghibellines (people who supported the German emperors and were against the pope's government.)

His love and inspiration Beatriz Portinari dies.

He wrote the Vita Nuova inspired by his love for Beatriz, and it became his first known work.

The White-Guelphs (A group of people of which Dante was part, who supported the Pope and the freedom of the cities) were defeated and Dante was banished during his entire life.

He begins to write the Divine Comedy, divided into three canticles or books (Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise).

Dante died (probably of malaria) on September 14, 1321, in Ravenna (where he lived his last years) after finished writing "The Paradise."

La vita nuova It is his first work after Beatriz's death, in which he narrates his love for her. This work is important because it uses "dolce stil novo." a new poetic style (which would later give origin to more Renaissance works) in which love mixes with Aristotelian thought.

De vulgari eloquentia It is an essay of the local or popular language where Dante analyzes the origin of languages and their changes, denying the theories that existed until that moment.

The banquet and the Monarchy"The banquet" (Convivio) is a collection of his most extensive poems, and "Monarchy" (Monarchia) is a treatise on political philosophy written in Latin. The Monarchy was burned by order of the papal delegate after Dante's death.