Flashcards: Dante Alighieri

Giannozzo Manetti (1396 – 1459) was an Italian politician and diplomat from Florence, who was also a humanist scholar of the early Italian Renaissance.

Beatrice "Bice" di Folco Portinari (pronounced Italian: [be.aˈtriːtʃe], 1266–1290) was a Florentine woman who has been commonly identified as the principal inspiration for Dante Alighieri's Vita Nuova, and is also commonly identified with the Beatrice who appears as one of his guides in the Divine Comedy (La Divina Commedia) in the last book, Paradiso, and in the last four cantos of Purgatorio.

83 Beatrix (/ˈbeɪ.ətrɪks/ BAY-ə-triks or /ˈbiːətrɪks/ BEE-ə-triks) is a quite large asteroid orbiting in the inner part of the main asteroid belt.

The Thinker (French: Le Penseur) is a bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin, usually placed on a stone pedestal.

De vulgari eloquentia (Ecclesiastical Latin: [de vulˈɡari eloˈkwentsi.a], Classical Latin: [deː wʊɫˈɡaːriː eːɫɔˈkᶣɛnti.aː]; Italian: [de vulˈɡaːri eloˈkwɛntsja]; On Eloquence in the vernacular) is the title of a Latin essay by Dante Alighieri.

La Vita Nuova (pronounced [la ˈviːta ˈnwɔːva]; Italian for "The New Life") or Vita Nova (Latin title) is a text by Dante Alighieri published in 1295.

The Barque of Dante (French: La Barque de Dante), sometimes known as Dante and Virgil in Hell (Dante et Virgile aux enfers), is the first major painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, and one of the works signalling a shift in the character of narrative painting from Neo-Classicism towards the Romantic movement.

Pope Boniface VIII (Latin: Bonifatius VIII; c. 1230 – 11 October 1303), born Benedetto Caetani, was Pope from 24 December 1294 to his death in 1303.

Dante and Virgil is a 1850 oil on canvas painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau.

Dante Alighieri was the first dreadnought battleship built for the Regia Marina (Royal Italian Navy).

Palacio Barolo is a landmark office building, located at 1370 Avenida de Mayo, in the neighborhood of Monserrat, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Convivio (Italian pronunciation: [komˈviːvjo]; The Banquet) is a work written by Dante Alighieri roughly between 1304 and 1307.

Eugen Ciucă (Romanian: [e.uˈd͡ʒen t͡ʃjukə]; 27 February 1913 – 26 September 2005) was a contemporary Romanian-American artist known for his monumental sculptures, vivid paintings and drawings of delicate feminine figures.

Alighiero di Bellincione or Alaghiero di Bellincione (ca. 1210–not after 1283) was the father of Dante Alighieri.

Irma Brandeis (1905–1990) was an American scholar of Dante Alighieri.

Paget Jackson Toynbee (1855–1932) was a UK Dante scholar.

Les Proscrits (sometimes translated into English as The Exiles) is a French novel by Honoré de Balzac, published in 1831 by éditions Gosselin, then in 1846 by Furne, Dubochet, Hetzel in Études philosophiques.

Jacopo Alighieri (1289–1348) was an Italian poet, the son of Dante Alighieri, whom he followed in his exile.

Dante Alighieri Academy (Official name: Dante Alighieri Catholic Academy; also known as Dante Alighieri Academy Catholic Secondary School) is a Toronto Catholic District School Board-based high school serving Lawrence Heights in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, founded in 1974 by the Sisters of St.

The Dante Monument is a memorial in Little Italy, Montreal.

The Gates of Hell (French: La Porte de l'Enfer) is a monumental sculptural group work by French artist Auguste Rodin that depicts a scene from "The Inferno", the first section of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.

The Dante Alighieri Society (Italian: Società Dante Alighieri) is a society that promotes Italian culture and language around the world.

The Battle of Campaldino was a battle between the Guelphs and Ghibellines on 11 June 1289.

Mary Ackworth Evershed (née Orr; 1 January 1867 Plymouth Hoe, Devon – 25 October 1949, Ewhurst, Surrey) was a British astronomer and scholar.

Dante Alighieri, is a public artwork by Italian artist Ettore Ximenes, located at Meridian Hill Park in Washington, D.

Dante Park or Dante Square is a park in front of Lincoln Center in New York City, New York.

Edward Moore (1835–1916) was an English scholar, born at Cardiff.