ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

DANTE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Dante marries
A
Beatrice Portinari
B
Frances of Rimini
C
Gemma Donati
D
Lisa del Giocondo
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The couple were married sometime around 1285 while they were in their early 20s. Accounts vary as to how many children and Donati and Dante had, but they had at least four children: Pietro (c.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1285 Dante married Gemma Donati and together they had four children: Giovanni, Pietro, Jacopo, and Antonia.

Detailed explanation-3: -Dante married Gemma Donati after being betrothed to her at the age of 12, and they had four children together: Jacopo, Pietro, Giovanni, and Antonia, who later became a nun, coincidentally adopting the name Sister Beatrice.

Detailed explanation-4: -Beatrice, the woman to whom the great Italian poet Dante dedicated most of his poetry and almost all of his life, from his first sight of her at the age of nine (“from that time forward, Love quite governed my soul”) through his glorification of her in La divina commedia, completed 40 years later, to his death in 1321.

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