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Name: ________________________________ Date: __________________________ Period: ______ Dante Alighieri ___/40 Directions: (1) Use context clues, your background knowledge, the word bank, and the process of elimination to fill in the blanks below. (2) Answer the questions as they occur. (3) Complete the flow map below to make clear what happened after “Dante Alighieri was born … in Florence, Italy.. . Use the underlined verbs and verb phrases as a guide. (4) Write a one paragraph summary of this reading. WORD music Beatrice Life poets Comedy BANK attention children Dante Alighieri was born in Florence, Italy, in 1265 to a notable family of modest means. His mother died when he was seven years old, and his father remarried , having two more (1) _______________. At twelve years of age Dante was betrothed to Gemma di Manetto Donati, though he had already fallen in love with another girl, (2) _______________ Portinari, who he continued to write about throughout his life, though he had only limited interaction with her. His love poems to Beatrice are collected in La Vita Nuova, or The New (3) _______________. Dante is renowned as the author of La Commedia (The Divine [4] _______________), a tour of the three realms of the afterlife, which is considered a literary masterpiece. 5 What can you assume about marriage practices in late medieval Italy based upon the information in the paragraph above? _________________________________________________________ 1

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Page 1: Web viewGiven the context, provide a dictionary-style definition for the word “expatriot. ... _____ (Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio), and Paradise

Name: ________________________________ Date: __________________________ Period: ______

Dante Alighieri ___/40

Directions: (1) Use context clues, your background knowledge, the word bank, and the process of elimination to fill in the blanks below. (2) Answer the questions as they occur. (3) Complete the flow map below to make clear what happened after “Dante Alighieri was born … in Florence, Italy.. . ” Use the underlined verbs and verb phrases as a guide. (4) Write a one paragraph summary of this reading.

WORD music Beatrice Life poets ComedyBANK attention children

Dante Alighieri was born in Florence, Italy, in 1265 to a notable family of modest means. His mother died when he was seven years old, and his father remarried, having two more (1) _______________. At twelve years of age Dante was betrothed to Gemma di Manetto Donati, though he had already fallen in love with another girl,(2) _______________ Portinari, who he continued to write about throughout his life, though he had only limited interaction with her. His love poems to Beatrice are collected in La Vita Nuova, or The New (3) _______________. Dante is renowned as the author of La Commedia (The Divine [4] _______________), a tour of the three realms of the afterlife, which is considered a literary masterpiece.

5 What can you assume about marriage practices in late medieval Italy based upon the information in the paragraph above?

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____________________________________________In his youth, Dante studied many subjects, including poetry, painting, and (6) _______________. He read the poetry of the troubadours and the poetry of classical antiquity, including Homer and Virgil. By the age of eighteen, Dante had met the poets Guido Cavalcanti, Lapo Gianni, and Cino da Pistoia. These (7) _______________ became the leaders of Dolce Stil Novo (“The Sweet New Style”), in which personal and political passions were the purpose of poetry. He later turned his (8) _______________ to philosophy, which the character of Beatrice criticizes in Purgatorio. He also became a pharmacist, and in his twenties and thirties took an active part in public affairs.

9 How do think Dante felt about the time in his life when he “turned his attention to philosophy?”

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Like most Florentines during his lifetime, Dante was affected by the Guelph-Ghibelline conflict, a political division of loyalty between the Papacy (supported by the Guelphs) and the Holy(10) _______________ Empire (supported by the Ghibellines). On June 11th, 1289, he fought for the Guelphs at the (11) _______________ of Campaldino, helping to bring forth a reformation of the Florentine constitution.

After defeating the Ghibellines, the Guelphs divided into two factions: the White Guelphs, Dante’s party, who were wary of the Pope’s political influence; and the Black Guelphs, who remained loyal to Rome. Initially the (12) _______________ were in power and they kicked the Blacks out of Florence. When Pope Boniface VIII planned a military occupation of the city, a delegation of Florentines, Dante among them, went to Rome to ascertain the Pope’s intentions.

13 Given the context, provide a synonym for the word “ascertain.”

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14 Was Dante loyal to the pope or the emperor? Place Dante where he belongs on the spectrum below.

While he was in Rome, the Black Guelphs destroyed much of the city, and established a new(15) _______________. Dante received word that his assets had been seized and that he was considered an absconder, having left the city. Condemned to perpetual (16) _______________, Dante never returned to his beloved Florence. An outcast, Dante wandered Italy for several years, beginning to outline La Commedia, his great work.

17 For the Catholic Church, Purgatory is a place of suffering inhabited by the souls of sinners who are paying for their sins before going to heaven. If Dante’s La Commedia (The Divine Comedy) is autobiographical, what was Dante doing during his time in Purgatory?

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In 1315, the military officer controlling (18) _______________ granted an amnesty to Florentines in exile, but the government of the city insisted that returning expatriots were required to pay a large fine and do public penance. Dante refused, preferring to remain in exile. Six years later, Dante died on September 13th, 1321 in Ravenna, Italy, most likely of malarial (19) _______________.

20 Given the context, provide a dictionary-style definition for the word “expatriot.”

ex·pa·tri·ot noun: someone who has… ______________

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Unlike the epic poems of Homer and (21) _______________, which told the great stories of their people’s history, Dante’s La Commedia (The Divine Comedy) is a somewhat autobiographical work, set at the time in which he lived and peopled with contemporary figures. It follow’s Dante’s own

allegorical journey through (22) _______________ (Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio), and Paradise (Paradiso). Guided at first by the character of Virgil, and later by his beloved Beatrice, Dante wrote of his own path to salvation, offering philosophical and moral judgments (23) _______________ the way. Due to the monumental influence the work has had on countless artists, Dante is considered among the greatest writers to have lived. As the poet T. S. Eliot wrote, “Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them, there is no third.”

24 Based upon the paragraph, provide an adjective that might describe T. S. Eliot.

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Directions: Complete the flow map below to make clear what happened after “Dante Alighieri was born in Florence, Italy, in 1265.. . ” The events may not be in order in the text.

Directions: Summarize this reading in one full paragraph.

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