Beatrice Portinari

Beatrice Portinari (* 1266, † June 8, 1290 ) was the childhood sweetheart of Dante Alighieri and influenced his work significantly. Your life is only partially known and controversial.

Life

The banker Folco Portinari was the father of Beatrice, who was nine years old, Dante encounters was eight years old the first time at a spring festival. Nine years later, Dante met her a second time, when she presented to him at a youth festival a flower wreath. He is taken by her angelic shape both times. She married at the age of 20 years, the banker and Simone dei Bardi knight, in the presence of Dante. She was carried off by an epidemic at the age of 24 years.

Influence on Dante's work

In Dante's Vita Nova, he describes his love for Beatrice, from the first meeting until her death. This describes Dante in Chapter 28, where he avoids using the term death, and it fails expressly to report on the circumstances.

Another mention of Beatrice there in Dante's Divine Comedy.

Date of death

The iconic number nine is very special for Dante and finds himself again and again in his work. He notes that Beatrice is after the usual in Syria era and after the Christian era in the year in which the perfect number was nine times completed, died in the ninth month, on the ninth day after the usual in Arabia era. It is undisputed that thus the year and month of their death. The perfect number is for Dante the Ten and the year in which it was nine times is completed 1290th The Syrian year begins on October 1. The ninth month is thus of June.

When determining the day there are two theories. Firstly, the Arabic year begins on September 9. It follows that the ninth day of any month of the 17th in a month of the Christian era is. This would result in death as June 17, 1290. More common, however, is the assumption that the Arab era is meant by the next day begins when it gets dark. Thus would be the ninth day of the Christian era, the eighth anniversary of her death and thus June 8, 1290.