The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages; . DANTE ALIGHIERI livesby and in his DivineComedy. That famouspoem stands as his onegreat achievement, and init and his Vita Nuova isrevealed as much of thepoets inner life as weshall probably ever in these, fact andfiction are so closely inter-woven that it is difficult toseparate them. All thathis numerous biographers—copying one from theother, in many cases—have been able to give us are a few incontestable facts, anda thick padding of conjectures. The few really undoubtable facts of his life are soon
The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages; . DANTE ALIGHIERI livesby and in his DivineComedy. That famouspoem stands as his onegreat achievement, and init and his Vita Nuova isrevealed as much of thepoets inner life as weshall probably ever in these, fact andfiction are so closely inter-woven that it is difficult toseparate them. All thathis numerous biographers—copying one from theother, in many cases—have been able to give us are a few incontestable facts, anda thick padding of conjectures. The few really undoubtable facts of his life are soonrecounted: born in Florence in 1265 (probably late in May orearly in June), he enjoyed a good education (guided andinfluenced by Brunetto Latini), turned his attention early topoetry, and appears to have practiced painting and perhapsalso music to some extent. He was married, about 1292, toGemma Donati, who bore him four or more children. Hetook active part in the political affairs of Florence, and isdescribed as an ardent, though rather doctrinaire that republ
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