Beatrice Portinari
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Beatrice "Bice" di Folco Portinari was an Italian woman who has been commonly identified as the principal inspiration for Dante Alighieri's Vita Nuova, and is also identified with the Beatrice who act
Beata Beatrix by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (c. 1870)
Beatrice appears to Virgil at the start of Inferno, in an illustration by Gustave Doré.
Dante and Beatrice, by Henry Holiday (1883). Dante looks longingly at Beatrice (in center) passing by with friend Lady Vanna (red) along the Arno River
Dante Alighieri
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Dante Alighieri, widely known mononymously as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is wi
Beatrice Portinari
…Bice" di Folco Portinari (Italian: ; 1265 – 8 or 19 June 1290) was an Italian woman who has been commonly identified as the principal inspiration for Dante Alighieri's Vita Nuova, and is also identified with the Beatrice who acts as his guide in the last book of his narrative poem the Divine Comedy (La Divina…
Alleged Dante portrait in the chapel of the Bargello palace, Florence.
Dante's house museum in Florence. The house has been significantly altered since Dante's time.
Dante and Beatrice, by Henry Holiday, inspired by La Vita Nuova, 1883
Dante in Verona, by Antonio Cotti, 1879