Dante Alighieri’s “La Divina Commedia”

IFF 2-3 Angarag Byambajav

Dante’s Life

• Born May 14 to June 13, 1265 in Florence, Italy.

Dante’s Life

• His family had loyalty to the Guelphs.

• Factions supporting the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor, respectively.

• Emerged from the struggle for power between the Papacy and the Holy Roman Empire, which had arisen with the Investiture Conflict.

Guelphs and Ghibellines conflict

• After the Guelphs finally defeated the Ghibellines in 1289, Guelphs began to fight among themselves.

• By 1300 the Florentine Guelphs had divided into the Black Guelphs and the White Guelphs.

• the Blacks supporting the Pope and the Whites wanting more freedom from Rome.

Guelphi Bianchi & Guelphi Neri

• A new Black Guelph government was installed

• supporters of the White Guelphs, were exiled in 1302 when the Black Guelphs took control of Florence.

• Dante exiled from Florence and ordered to pay a large fine.

Guelphi Neri

Dante’s Life• When Dante was 12, in 1277, he was promised in marriage

to Gemma Donati.• His children are Jacopo, Pietro, Giovanni, Gabrielle

Alighieri, and Antonia.• Antonia later became a nun, taking the name Sister

Beatrice.

Dante’s Life

• His love at first sight, Beatrice Portinari.

The Divine Comedy

• 1308-1320• 100 cantos: introductory canto

and 3 sections of 33 cantos• Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso

The Divine Comedy

Hell

Purgatory

Paradise

Dante’s DeathSeptember 14, 1321, Ravenna, Italy