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Beatrice Portinari, object of Dante Alighieri's adoration (born 1266)

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Beatrice Portinari

Dante's muse (1265–1290)

Beatrice "Bice" di Folco Portinari was an Italian woman who has been commonly identified as the principal inspiration for Dante Alighieri's Vita Nuova, and is also identified with the Beatrice who acts as his guide in the last book of his narrative poem the Divine Comedy,…
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Dante Alighieri

Italian poet, writer, and philosopher (1265–1321)

Dante Alighieri, widely known mononymously as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the…
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June 8

Day of the year

June 8 is the 159th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 206 days remain until the end of the year.
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