Dante (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
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Dante was an only child in a family that belonged to Italy’s lower nobility. By his own account, the most significant event of his childhood occurred when he was nine and first gazed upon a nine-year-old girl named Beatrice, his lifelong secret love who inspired much of his poetry. (The girl later became the Florentine noblewoman Beatrice Portinari). Dante spent most of his youth circulating in Florence’s cosmopolitan literary community, in which he developed an interest in literature.
Dante’s political troubles began in 1300, when he was elected...
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