There from whence envy first did let her loose. Dante refused, preferring to remain in exile. On June 11, 1289, he fought in the ranks at the battle of Campaldino on the side of the Guelphs, helping to bring forth a reformation of the Florentine constitution. Therefore I think and judge it for thy best. This allowed the work to be published to a much broader audience, contributing substantially to world literacy. He governs everywhere, and there he reigns; By that same God whom thou didst never know. The time was the beginning of the morning, And up the sun was mounting with those stars, That with him were, what time the Love Divine. He entered the guild of apothecaries, affording him political opportunities normally offered to philosophers. Upward I looked, and I beheld its shoulders. It was also a time of arranged marriages and both Dante and Beatrice were betrothed to their future spouses when they were children. Written between 1292 and 1294 in commemoration of Beatrices death, Vita Nuova (The New Life) reflects Dantes first effort to depict her as an abstract model of love and beauty. Condemned to perpetual exile, Dante never returned to his beloved Florence. What was this forest savage, rough, and stern. The author of La Commedia (The Divine Comedy), considered a masterwork of world literature, Dante Alighieri was born Durante Alighieri in Florence, Italy, in 1265, to a notable family of modest means. At the age of nine he purportedly, briefly glimpsed the eight-year-old Beatrice Portinariand, struck by her beauty, fell in love. Italian poet and scholar Dante Alighieri is best known for his masterpiece La Commedia (known in English as The Divine Comedy), which is universally considered one of world literatures greatest poems. Although The Divine Comedy caused an immediate sensation during his life, Dantes fame waned during the Italian Renaissance and was later revived in the 19th and 20th centuries. "Now, art thou that Virgilius and that fountainWhich spreads abroad so wide a river of speech?" Dante and Beatrice lived in the thirteenth century in the era of "courtly" love. 'Sub Julio' was I born, though it was late,And lived at Rome under the good Augustus,During the time of false and lying gods. At first in motion set those beauteous things; The hour of time, and the delicious season; But not so much, that did not give me fear, He seemed as if against me he were coming. Ah, did she pass so coldly byThe tenderest love in all the earth,Making his lifetime one long sigh,That never knew a morn of mirth?High up the Paradisal stairDid he refind amidst the glareThis matron's breast without a heart,Transformed to Theologic Art?Ah, well for us 'tis not our partIn England's fresher, stronger air,To shrine this saint-elected pair,This mythologic, cleric dream,Instead of Shakespeare, our supreme,Humane, and multiform, and clear,Exhaustless, blood-red, near and dear. Thrust me back thither where the sun is silent. At twelve years old, Dante was betrothed to Gemma di Manetto Donati, though he had already fallen in love with another girl, Beatrice Portinari, who he continued to write about throughout his life, though his interaction with her was limited. In his youth, Dante studied many subjects, including Tuscan poetry, painting, and music. With the affright that from her aspect came. The epic describes Dantes imagined journey through Hell and Purgatory to Heaven. 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