FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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Question
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Dante’s friend
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A sinner from hell
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The woman Dante is in love with (Donna Angelo)
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Dante’s mother
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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. They were children: he was nine years old and she was eight.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Dante and Beatrice never married. In 1285 Dante married Gemma Donati and together they had four children: Giovanni, Pietro, Jacopo, and Antonia. Beatrice became the wife of Simone dei Bardi, a prominent Florentine banker. Source: Dante Alighieri, and Corrado Ricci.