FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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Detailed explanation-1: -Beatrice was Dante’s true love. In his Vita Nova, Dante reveals that he saw Beatrice for the first time when his father took him to the Portinari house for a May Day party.
Detailed explanation-2: -Beatrice was Dante’s literary muse and inspiration for the Divine Comedy. At the age of nine Dante met Beatrice for the first time and immediately fell in love with her. He did not see her again until exactly nine years later in 1283.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -Dante Alighieri first saw and fell in love with Beatrice Portinari when he was nine years old.