Tommaso Portinari
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Tommaso Portinari was an Italian banker for the Medici bank in Bruges. He was a member of a prominent Florentine family, coming from Portico di Romagna, near Forlì; that family had included Dante's mu
Hugo van der Goes Portinari Triptych
Tommaso Portinari, detail of Portinari Triptych by Hugo van der Goes
Hans Memling's c.1470 Portrait of Tommaso Portinari and Portrait of Maria Portinari
Speculative reconstruction of the 1470 Portinari triptych
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
Tommaso Portinari
…bank in Bruges. He was a member of a prominent Florentine family, coming from Portico di Romagna, near Forlì; that family had included Dante's muse, Beatrice Portinari. His father was a Medici branch manager, and after his death in 1421, Tommaso and his orphaned brothers were taken in and raised in the household of…
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