powerpoint on Dante

1. Dante Alighieri
BY: AARON COLE

2. Child life
 Born June 1st 1265 in Florence.
 He is the son in a prominent family in Florence.
 His mother dies 1271.
 Father remarries after a year and has two children.
 Father dies in 1276.

3. Marriage
 He was married in 1277 to Gemma Donati and had four children
named Jacopo, Pietro, Giovanni, and Antonia.

4. Military life
 Dante became a cavalryman in the Battle of Campaldino and the
Guelf League defeats the Ghibellines of Arezzo.

5. Starts writing
 Dante details the battle of Campaldino in Purgatorio
 Then writes the Vita Nuova
 Dante meets the King of Hungary then details the meeting in.

6. Furthering career
 Dante became both a doctor and a pharmacist then joins the guild
of the apothecaries.
 He then enters the public life in Florence
 Afterwards he becomes one of the six highest magistrates in
Florence.

7. To Rome
 Dante is sent to Rome as an envoy to Pope Boniface VIII.
 After the Black Guelfs seize power Dante was condemned to exile
for two years and was also ordered to pay large sum of money.
 He was also completely excluded from office forever now.

8. Beginning his life work.
 Dante started work on the Divine Comedy which was divided into
three parts
 Dante’s inferno
 Purgatory
 Paradiso

9. Other works
 He completed De vulgari eloquentia
 Convivo
 Questio de acque et terra

10. Death
 Dante died after falling ill on September 13 or 14.

11. Sources
 http://www.medieval-life-and-times.info/famous-medieval-people/
dante.htm
 https://www.poets.org/.../poet/dante-alighieri
 www.biography.com/people/dante-9265912