Dante Alighieri
Jun 8, 2011 News
Great Italian poet who is considered the father of Italian poetry and the most profound renewal of the language of their homeland and universal.Nacido glory of literature in Florence, the son of an illustrious family Guelph, received the proper education of its kind: letters, drawing, singing, horseback riding, handling weapons, etc.Los years the intense study and humanistic vocation contributed to multiply this knowledge, has the point of being oblivious to any knowledge of his time: music, theology, philosophy, philology, history, astronomy, mathematics, natural sciences, etc.Su lineage enabled it to avoid fighting between Guelphs and Ghibellines, the two powerful parties that for centuries divided italy. In 1289, Dante fought with the Guelph cavalry at the Battle of Campalino, where the Tuscan Ghibellines were defeated. After the victory of the Guelphs were divided into two camps: the "Popolo Grasso" composed of the five wealthiest guilds of the city, and "Popolani", belonging to the classes, which required registration of all citizens in the guilds. Dante belonged to doctors and boticarios.Algunos years later he returned to the Guelph party split into two factions, blacks who advocated closer ties between the Pope and France, and whites, among whom was Dante, supporters of papal policy independent. By taking control "blacks" in the city, Dante, who had held positions of importance and some diplomatic missions and military, had suffered persecution and exile to live the rest of his life. Almost twenty years pilgrimage to different cities in Italy and abroad. Some authors claim that he lived in Paris, others that he was studying in Oxford, but neither of these views has been tested with good reasons.
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