Dante ALIGHIERI was born in Florence, Italy in 1265.
Louis,. program in English at the Graduate Center of CUNY, he was a visiting professor at Washington University in St.
While chairman of the Ph.
D. from Columbia, he was in the Society of Fellows at Harvard.
After receiving his Ph.
D. of Three Centuries of American Poetry (Bantam Books) and, with Yehuda Amichai, of the eight volumes of the JPS Jewish Poetry Series.
Mandelbaum is co-editor with Robert Richardson Jr.
His volumes of verse translation include The Aeneid of Virgil, a University of California Press volume (now available from Bantam) for which he won a National Book Award; the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso volumes of the California Dante (now available from Bantam)
The Odyssey of Homer (now available from Bantam)
The Metamorphoses of Ovid, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry
Ovid in Sicily
Selected Poems of Giuseppe Ungaretti
Selected Writings of Salvatore Quasimodo; and David Maria Turoldo.
Allen Mendelbaum\'s five verse volumes are: Chelmaxions
The Savantasse of Montparnasse
Journeyman
Leaves of Absence; and A Lied of Letterpress.
On a diplomatic mission to Venice in 1321, Dante fell ill, and returned to Ravenna, where he died.
He began his Comedy (later to be called the Divine Comedy) around 1307-1308.
In exile he wrote his Convivio, kind of poetic compendium of medieval philosophy, as well as a political treatise, Monarchia.
Legend has it that he studied at Paris, but if so, he returned to Italy, for his last years were spent in Verona and Ravenna.
We know little about Dante\'s life in exile.
He never returned to Florence.
But after the Blacks seized control of Florence in 1301, Dante himself was tried in absentia and was banished from the city on pain of death.
As one of the city\'s magistrates, he found it necessary to banish leaders of the so-called Black faction, and his friend Cavalcanti, who like Dante was a prominent White.
Dante married about 1285, served Florence in battle, and rose to a position of leadership in the bitter factional politics of the city-state.
This sequence of lyrics, sonnets, and prose narrative describes his love, first earthly, then spiritual, for Beatrice, whom he had first seen as a child of nine, and who had died when Dante was 25.
Dante\'s first major work is the Vita Nuova, 1293-1294.
His early poetry falls into the tradition of love poetry that passed from the Provencal to such Italian poets as Guido Cavalcanti, Dante\'s friend and mentor.
Dante ALIGHIERI was born in Florence, Italy in 1265
