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Dante Alighieri

Topic: Dante Alighieri was an Italian Renaissance writer.

Thesis: Dante Alighieri is one of the greatest Italian poets of all time because of the way he contributed to Italian society, the descriptions he put into his work, and the way he relates the stories to himself.

Source 1 Dante." __Encyclopædia Britannica__. 2010. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 29 Apr. 2010 []

1. He was a literary theorist, moral philosopher and political thinker. 2. Best known for La divina commedia. 3. He showed the vision of man's temporal and eternal destiny. 4. It is about the authors own expirences of getting exiled from Florence. 5. It is story he goes through hell, purgatory, and paradise. 6. He gives very detailed description of each place. 7. He contributed to comedy, Itallian literature, love, Latin scholarship, Renaissance art and tragedy. 8. He wrote about his views on aesthetics, Anastasius II, Bertran de Born, Celestine V, church and state, Italian unity and political philosophy 9. He was influenced by Aristotelianism and Latini 10. His greatest story he wrote was La divina commedia. 11. He wrote poems 12. Many writers after him tried to be like him 13. Wealth of imagery and power of it language 14. He wrote terza rima; Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso which were apart of Divina commedia. 15. He wrote long Poems 16. He had many unfinished poems 17. Poems were about himself 18. He wrote about being exiled from Florence 19. He wrote about being noble 20. He dedicated most of his poetry to his spiritual love for Beatrice Portinari.

Source 2 "The Divine Comedy: Introduction." __Epics for Students__. Ed. Marie Rose Napierkowski. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1998. __eNotes.com__. January 2006. 29 April 2010. . []

21. Dante had a very vivid description of hell 22. He wrote about what he thought Purgatory was like. 23. He also wrote what he thought paradise 24. He recounts the travels of the pilgrams 25. He meets god in the story 26. It is about his alter ego 27. He puts Christian theology and doctrines, physics, astrology, cartography, mathematics, literary theory, history, and politics into a complex poem 28. Dante's son wrote comentaries about it 29. It is still read and taught today 30. Many Western characters are based on his idea's 31. They have made 500 manusripts of his writings 32. It is complex even at the literal level. 33. He would organize information in his writings 34. There are three books also called cantiche 35. The three books are inferno (about hell), purgatory and paradise 36. The books are broken down into canti's 37. Inferno has 34, Purgatory has 33 and paradise has 33 38. Inferno introduces the whole poem. 39. Hell was a big part of the religon 40. He tries to tell what is the purpose of this life.

Source 3 Gardner, Edmund. "Dante Alighieri." __The Catholic Encyclopedia.__ Vol. 4. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908. 29 Apr. 2010 []

41. His first book was the Vito Nuova 42. He wrote that in lyrical verse poetry 43. Told the story of love toward Beatrice 44. He showed chivalry toward women 45. His literary work at this epoch centres round his rhyme 46. He had other poems that connect the Vito Nuova with the divina commedia. 47. He wrote the De Vulgari Eloquentia but did not finish 48. This was suppost to explore the Italian language 49. Even unfinished the book explains a lot 50. He wrote another poem called the Convivio 51. It talked about Scholastic philosophy 52. He wrote De Monarchia 53. This book talked about monarchy 54. He wrote about divine rights 55. Each poem he wrote was apart of his life. 56. Each poem was about what happens when you die 57. He wrote about corrupt society 58. He met god and talked to him 59. He wrote at the falling of the Roman empire 60. He wrote about corruption of church

Sorce 4 Alighieri, Dante. "http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/1664." //http://www.poets.org//. Academy of American Poets, n.d. Web. 29 Apr 2010. . []

61. Wrote his first work at 12 years old 62. He wrote about Beatrice Portinari this girl he liked 63. The first thing he wrote was La Vita Nuova 64. He was inpired by Homer and Virgil 65. His poems were personal 66. He was a philosopher and a poet 67. He was active in public affairs 68. He was influenced by the Guelph-Ghibelline conflict 69. He wrote about government talking about them 70. Donte was exiled from Florence 71. When exiled he began to write La commedia 72. He was granted amnesty and allow back to Florence 73. He works were some what an autobiography 74. It follows Dante through hell, purgatory, and paradise 75. Writen in Terza Rima 76. Writen in Italian not Latin 77. This allowed more people to read it 78. Dante is consitered one of the greatest writers to ever live. 79. T.S. Eliot wrote, "Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them, there is no third." 80. Dante died on September 13, 1321