Dante: The Story of His Life (original) (raw)
Dante and Renaissance Florence
The Sixteenth Century Journal, 2006
Simon Gilson explores Dante's reception in his native Florence between 1350 and 1481. He traces the development of Florentine civic culture and the interconnections between Dante's principal 'Florentine' readers, from Giovanni Boccaccio to Cristoforo Landino, and explains how and why both supporters and opponents of Dante exploited his legacy for a variety of ideological, linguistic, cultural, and political purposes. The book focuses on a variety of texts, both Latin and vernacular, in which reference was made to Dante, from commentaries to poetry, from literary lives to letters, from histories to dialogues. Gilson pays particular attention to Dante's influence on major authors such as Boccaccio and Petrarch, on Italian humanism, and on civic identity and popular culture in Florence. Ranging across literature, philosophy, and art, across languages and across social groups, this study fully illuminates for the first time Dante's central place in Italian Renaissance culture and thought. simon gilson is Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Medieval Optics and Theories of Light in the Works of Dante (2000) and the co-editor of Science and Literature in Italian Culture: From Dante to Calvino (2004). He has published journal articles on topics related to Dante's scientific interests, the Dante commentary tradition, and his reception in the Italian Renaissance.
Mediterranea, 2022
JOHN C. BARNES UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN Dante's was a life of two halves, if unequal ones. From his birth in May or June 1265 until March 1302 he lived, wrote and was politically active as a resident of his native Florence, but from 10 March 1302, when he was sentenced to death as an enemy of a new regime, until his actual decease in September 1321, he secured his comparative safety by remaining outside the jurisdiction of the Florentine state. Although the first 'half' occupied nearly two-thirds of the poet's lifespan, in any biography it is likely to occupy fewer pages than the second-in this case 3-71. 1 Not surprisingly, little is new in these pages: the documentary record is exiguous, especially before the poet's entry into politics in 1295; the only other contemporary evidence lies in the creative writings of Dante and his associates; to these may be added the testimony of early biographers, all of whom wrote after their subject's death; and essentially all avenues were thoroughly explored long ago. The scene has been slightly reset by the appearance, in 2016, of a new Codice diplomatico dantesco (superseding an earlier one published in 1940 and subsequently augmented), that is, an edition, with commentary, of all known documents relating to Dante and his family. 2 The present biography's first section opens with a fluent and largely up-to-date account of Florence's socio-political evolution, which is followed by passages on Dante's family, education, military activity, early writings and participation in
2021
Dante Alighieri Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) was an Italian poet and philosopher. Born in the Republic of Florence (now modern-day Italy), he would write some of the most important poems in Medieval times. Not known specifically for his philosophy, Dante would be involved in political strife, which would see him exiled from his beloved Florence. From this exile, Dante Alighieri would write some of his most important philosophical works and poems, most notably, the Divine Comedy. Dante was born in Florence, and the date of 1265 is used by many scholars. Although much of Dante's upbringing is unknown, some information can be gained by looking into the Divine Comedy, as a sort of self-autobiography. In one example, scholars can deduce the age of
Dante's Life of Dante, the Divine Comedy as autobiography
1998
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Dante Alighieri - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2018
Citation: Wetherbee, Winthrop and Jason Aleksander, “Dante Alighieri,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2018 Edition), edited by Edward N. Zalta Dante’s engagement with philosophy cannot be studied apart from his vocation as a writer, in which he sought to raise the level of public discourse by educating his countrymen and inspiring them to pursue happiness in the contemplative life. He was one of the most learned Italian laymen of his day, intimately familiar with Aristotelian logic and natural philosophy, theology, and classical literature. He is, of course,most famous for having written the Divine Comedy, but in his poetry as well as his philosophical treatises and other writings, he freely mingles and synthesizes philosophical and theological language as well extensive references and allusions to scripture and classical and contemporary poetry. While his contributions to world literature and other artistic genres are universally acknowledged, his theological imagination has also remained influential from his own time to the present day. His philosophical legacy, by comparison, remains more difficult to assess, though his writings provide, at the very least, a powerful tool for the study of the landscape of late medieval and Renaissance philosophy.
Dante, Peter of Trabibus, and the 'Schools of the Religious Orders' in Florence
Italian Studies, 2022
Based on Dante's declaration that he attended 'the schools of the religious orders' and the 'disputations of the philosophizers' (Cvo II. xii. 7), this article sheds light on the unedited disputations of a Franciscan theologian, Peter of Trabibus, in the Florentine convent of Santa Croce (1295-96) and analyses the information available to a layman who attended these disputations as an auditor. The article then argues that, beginning in the Vita nova, Dante resemanticised commonplaces contemporaneously discussed and cited in these 'schools'. More precisely, it examines Dante's quotation of an Aristotelian sententia in VN XLI considering this quotation's use in the Santa Croce environment (including in Trabibus's disputations). This analysis helps show how Dante attempted to provide his prosimetrum with a specific theological substratum and chose to apply a theological concept discussed in the scholastic environment of Florence to a literary work in the vernacular.
Recensioni Similarly Havely is not overzealous in identifying Franciscan elements in every line of the Commedia, recognizing that the Franciscan debate on poverty is by no means the only important factor in the construction of Dante's literary per-sona. He does, however, present a convincing argument in favour of its pervasive influence throughout the work. To this end, Havely has been painstaking in his efforts to locate the most Franciscan aspects of all three canticles of the Commedia., focusing on avarice and authority in the Inferno, poverty of the spirit in the Purgatorio and on poverty and authority in the Paradiso. Throughout the book as well Havely emphasizes that the debate on poverty was not simply one that pitted Franciscans against the papacy, especially given the existence of periodic papal support for the movement, but rather as one that ultimately also pitted the Spirituals against the Conventuals, confirming the difficulty of resolving the issue, but also accoun...
Dante Studies, 2008
Within the current debate on biography, we would like to highlight the issues of "author's identity" and "performance," with an emphasis on the workings and power of textuality. We shall mostly enter into dialogue with a constellation of points that make up the first question posited by Elisa Brilli in her Ouverture–the status of Dante's autobiographical statements with respect to the truth and the constant refunctionalization of such statements in Dante's different works or even, as Brilli has shown, within the same work. The central questions of our contribution are whether and how the autobiographical information from within Dante's texts can help reconstruct his biography and how his clever intertwining of autobiography and authorship comes about.