Dante's Inferno By Durante Alighieri

Durante Alighieri, also known as Dante (meaning “he who gives” ) was born in Florence on May, 1265. He was born into a family with small nobility and a history of involvement in Florence complex political scene. His mother, Bella degli Abbati, came from a family of wealthy landowners but died a few years later after his birth. His father, Alighiero di Bellincione, whom Dante seemed to have avoid mentioning as much as possible, soon remarried with Lapa di Chiarissimo Cialuffi. His father made his living by money-lending and by renting of properties. Florence, was a rich city-state located on the Arno River and its wealth was growing thanks to it being the center of “cloth-making.” Italian Portraits state that “Florence’s banking families, like …show more content…
In 1285, the pair married but Dante was in love with another girl, Beatrice, that he had met when both were very young (in 1274) . Dante and Beatrice had met only a couple of times during their lifetime, they never hold hands, nor kissed not even touched and it wasn’t even sure if Beatrice loved Dante, however this girl became one of the driving reasons, together with politics and literature, of his life. Beatrice, has inspired many of his poems like The Divine Comedy and in Vita Nuova. She is the most important feminine figure in his …show more content…
He is considered to be the father of the Italian language because he had boosted the Italian language, leaving to the writers which came after him, a tool that would have allowed them to talk about everything. The Encyclopedia Treccani states that 90% of the basic Italian vocabulary in use today is already in The Divine Comedy. He formed the basis of the intellectual vocabulary and language, structuring and strengthening the syntax, making it capable of complex arguments and therefore laying the foundations for a language that would have replaced Latin. After him, the Italian language could only be the Florentine. He had written a work that was superior to all that had been written up to that time in any vulgar Italian by creating the future of our Italian