FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
|
|
The poet who leads Dante on a tour of hell
|
|
|
Dante’s enemy
|
|
|
Dante’s patron
|
|
|
The emperor of Italy in Dante’s lifetime
|
Detailed explanation-1: -Now perhaps best known as the leading patron of the poet Dante Alighieri, Cangrande was in his own day chiefly acclaimed as a successful warrior and autocrat.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Epistle to Cangrande, from now on EpXIII, is the thirteenth of the letters from Dante’s epistolary corpus survived until our times. Written in Latin, it is addressed to Can Francesco della Scala, known as Cangrande I, the ruler of the Italian cities of Verona and Vicenza at the beginning of the 14th century.
Detailed explanation-3: -Dante was born in Florence, Republic of Florence, in what is now Italy. The exact date of his birth is unknown, although it is generally believed to be around 1265. This can be deduced from autobiographic allusions in the Divine Comedy.
Detailed explanation-4: -Dante writes all of The Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise) away from Florence. The Inferno is was completed by 1314. The FICTIONAL date of this poem is 1300.
Detailed explanation-5: -Accused of corruption and financial wrongdoing, Dante was first exiled from Florence for two years in 1302 after he refused to pay a fine.