FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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White Guelphs, led by the Donatis, nobles and small owners; black Guelphs led by the Cerchi, i.e. bourgeois.
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White Guelphs, led by the Donatis, i.e. bourgeois; black Guelphs led by the Cerchi, nobles and small owners.
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White Guelphs, led by the Cerchi, i.e. bourgeois; black Guelphs led by the Donatis, nobles and small owners.
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White Guelphs, led by the Cerchi, nobles and small owners; black Guelphs led by the Donatis, i.e. bourgeois.
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Detailed explanation-1: -White and Black Guelphs By 1300, the Florentine Guelphs had divided into the Black and White Guelphs. The Blacks continued to support the Papacy, while the Whites were opposed to Papal influence, specifically the influence of Pope Boniface VIII. Dante was among the supporters of the White Guelphs.
Detailed explanation-2: -Simply put, the Guelphs and Ghibellines were rival parties in medieval Germany and Italy that supported the papal party and the Holy Roman emperors respectively. But in Italy, the divisions became more a function of rivalries between cities and even local families.
Detailed explanation-3: -Not long after the fall of the anti-aristocratic regime of Giano della Bella in 1293, the Guelph party divided into two rival factions: the “Blacks, ” headed by the Donati clan and other long-standing noble families, and the “Whites, ” led by the Cerchi clan and families of more recent prosperity.
Detailed explanation-4: -The split between the Guelfs, who were sympathetic to the papacy, and the Ghibellines, who were sympathetic to the German (Holy Roman) emperors, contributed to chronic strife within the cities of northern Italy in the 13th and 14th centuries.