ITAL 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Domenico Di Michelino, Divine Comedy, Guelphs And Ghibellines
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Fresco of dante- la commedia illumina firenza (1465) De vulgari eloquentia-o the eloquence of the vernacular. Everything printed and written was in latin at this point. Born in 1265 in florence, died in 1321 in ravenna while in exile. Then the black guelfs support the pope, while the white guelfs want to limit the pope"s power. There are no original manuscripts of the divine comedy. Also trinity is a common number in medieval thought. The entire poem is composed in the vernacular as opposed to latin, and this is why dante is considered to be one of the fathers of italian language, along with boccaccio and petrarcha. Dante, petrarcha, and boccaccio- known as tre corone -three crowns. Virgil wrote the aeneid- virgil was his guide through hell and purgatory, dante chose virgil so. Dante"s hell is based largely on virgil"s depiction of the underworld. Dante wrote a book- la vita nuova (the new life).
