DANTE: How he fell in love at 9, was SENTENCED to be burned and SENT all his enemies to HELL!
This biography of Dante Alighieri is a gripping story of how the creator of "The Divine Comedy" was sentenced to be burned alive and, in retaliation, sent all his enemies to Hell in the pages of his great book. It all began when he fell in love with the beautiful Beatrice at the age of nine. This unattainable love drove him mad and became his lifelong muse.
But the cruel politics of Florence deprived him of everything: his home, his status, his family, and his homeland. An exile, forbidden to return home under penalty of death, he took revenge on the world in a way only a genius could. He created a detailed map of Hell, ruthlessly including corrupt popes, traitors, and his own personal political enemies. This is a story of love, exile, and the most sophisticated revenge in world literature.
00:00:00 — The Sentence of Florence in 1302
00:02:37 — The Transformation of a Politician into a Poet
00:04:30 — Birth and Family in Florence
00:06:30 — Marriage to Gemma Donati
00:07:26 — Meeting Beatrice
00:09:18 — Idealization of the Image
00:11:10 — Education and Brunetto Latini
00:14:20 — The Battle of Campaldino
00:16:05 — The Death of Beatrice and the "New Life"
00:17:56 — Political Career
00:19:47 — The Split into the White and Black Guelphs
00:24:02 — The Invasion of Charles of Valois
00:25:47 — The Sentence and Exile
00:27:52 — Spiritual Crisis
00:28:50 — Wanderings in Italy
00:30:35 — The Concept of "The Divine Comedy"
00:33:17 — The Plot of the Poem
00:36:51 — Boniface VIII in Hell
00:39:08 — Filippo Argenti's Revenge
00:41:04 — The Circles of Hell and Traitors
00:42:54 — Meeting with the Latin Teacher
00:44:41 — Refusal of the 1315 Amnesty
00:47:22 — The Last Years in Ravenna
00:49:11 — Death from Malaria
00:51:13 — The Dispute between Florence and Ravenna over the Bones
00:53:04 — The Discovery of the Remains in 1865 Year
00:54:51 — The Empty Tomb and the Oil of Penitence
00:55:51 — Victory Through Text
00:57:42 — Revenge as an Art
01:00:34 — The Pen is Mightier Than the Sword
Sources used in the creation of the video:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Данте_А...
Russian Wikipedia. A complete chronology with an extensive academic bibliography: birth in Florence in May-June 1265, full name Durante degli Alighieri, teacher Brunetto Latini, marriage to Gemma Donati, political career, exile in 1302, wanderings, final years in Ravenna, death on the night of September 13-14, 1321 from malaria.
https://24smi.org/celebrity/6366-dant...
24SMI — a comprehensive biographical article. Childhood and adolescence, education (trivium and quadrivium, Provencal poetry), first meeting Beatrice Portinari at age 9, "Nova Vita" (1292) after her death at 25, political activities, the White and Black Guelphs, the philosophical treatises "The Feast" and "On Popular Eloquence," and 15 years of work on "The Divine Comedy."
https://dante.tass.ru/bozhestvennaya-...
TASS — a special multimedia project "Hell. The Divine Comedy." In collaboration with the Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The Pope (the perpetrator of the expulsion) in Hell, a close friend in Purgatory, Beatrice in Paradise, biographical parallels in the poem, the action on the eve of the expulsion from Florence.
https://goldlit.org/dante-biography
GoldLit — "A Short Biography." Reception in Ravenna by Beatrice's sons and daughter, admirers of his work, the beginning of the "Comedy" around 1307, the addition of the epithet "Divine" in the Venetian edition, the secondary role of his wife Gemma in his fate, according to historians.
https://eksmo.ru/authors/aligeri-dant...
Eksmo Publishing House — author's biography. Brunetto Latini's teacher, love for Beatrice carried throughout his life, marriage of convenience, non-mention of his wife in his works, the problem of an ideal state with an ideal monarchy as another important theme, influence on the Italian literary language.