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ID: 901001107
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901001107
Record Type: Character/Person

Beatrice (Italian literary character, Dante, ca. 1293)

Note: Character in literary works by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Italian poet and prose writer, particularly as a protagonist in his monumental epic poem "La divina commedia." Beatrice is usually identified as based on the real person, Beatrice Portinari, the daughter of a Florentine family who married Simone de’ Bardi and died at the age of 24 in 1290.

Display Date: as a character, first in ca. 1293

Names:
Beatrice (Italian literary character, Dante, ca. 1293) (preferred,English-P,D,N)
Beatrice (Italian literary character, Dante, ca. 1293) (Italian-P,D,N)
Béatrice (Italian literary character, Dante, ca. 1293) (French,U,N)

Hierarchical Position:
Literature and Performing Arts (P)
....<Literary characters> (P)
........Beatrice (Italian literary character, Dante, ca. 1293) (I)
Related Iconography:
is actor for .... Divine Comedy, The
..........(Literature and Performing Arts, Named written and performed works, Literary works: Poetry, Divine Comedy, The (narrative poem, Dante, ca. 1308-1321)) [901001135]

Other Relationships:
role/characteristic is .... literary characters
.....(characters (people by activity), people by activity, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
identified as .... Portinari, Beatrice (Florentine noblewoman, 1266-1290)
.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)
located in .... Italia
.....(Europe) (TGN)
author is .... Dante Alighieri (Italian poet, theorist, and philosopher, 1265-1321)
.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)
culture/religion is .... Italian (culture or style)
.....(European regions, European, styles, periods, and cultures by region, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:
Beatrice (Italian literary character, Dante, ca. 1293)
................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
................Iconclass Illustrated Edition (2022-) 82AA(Beatricie)
Béatrice (Italian literary character, Dante, ca. 1293)
................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
Iconography Record Sources:
................ Source for image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Portinari#/media/File:Dante_Gabriel_Rossetti_-_Beata_Beatrix,_1864-1870.jpg

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