FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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THE WHITE GUELFI
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THE BLACK GUELPHS
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THE BLACK GHIBELLINS
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THE WHITE GHIBELLINS
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Detailed explanation-1: -Dante’s invectives in the Inferno against Florence and other Italian cities are a bitter criticism of the way in which civic living is governed not by the desire for peace and common well-being, but by greed and selfish motives.
Detailed explanation-2: -Storytelling as a Way to Achieve Immortality. Dante places much emphasis in his poem on the notion of immortality through storytelling, everlasting life through legend and literary legacy.
Detailed explanation-3: -Dante belonged to the White Guelphs. In general, the Guelphs were more often victorious. Also, in 1266, the Capetian House of Anjou, which belonged to the Guelph party, took the crown of Sicily.
Detailed explanation-4: -Dante believed that a single monarch, having no rival to dread, and no further ambition to satisfy, could have no motive to rule otherwise than justly. His monarch was Plato’s heaven-born statesman transferred from the Greek city to the European empire.