FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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when she was still a child
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when a teenager
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when I was younger
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two years before his death
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Detailed explanation-1: -Dante claims to have met a “Beatrice” only twice, on occasions separated by nine years, but was so affected by the meetings that he carried his love for her throughout his life.
Detailed explanation-2: -Dante Alighieri first saw and fell in love with Beatrice Portinari when he was nine years old. He would later write about his instant love for her in Vita Nuova, saying “Behold, a deity stronger than I; who coming, shall rule over me.” He loved her from afar for the rest of her life.
Detailed explanation-3: -Dante saw Beatrice for the first time at the age of nine and then saw her again nine years later at the age of eighteen and he was completely taken by her. Today, we would say that it was love at first sight.
Detailed explanation-4: -She only appears in Canto 2 in the context of Virgil’s explanation to Dante of how he was approached in the underworld to help Dante. Beatrice explains to Dante that she is safe in the underworld because she is ‘’so fram’d by God, thanks to his grace.