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Beatrice Portinari (c.Little is known of Dante's early life, although his education certainly left him familiar with ancient Roman literature, contemporary Tuscan.
1265–1290)
Florentine woman who is said to have inspired Dante.Born around 1265 or 1266; died on June 9, 1290; daughter of Folco Portinari (a Florentine noble); married Simone di Geri de Bardi (or Pardi).
Some say Beatrice Portinari was the heroine and inspiration of Dante's La Vita Nuova (The New Life), of his Divine Comedy, and of his life.
When he was a boy in 1274, Dante Alighieri first met the nine-year-old Beatrice at the house of her father. "Already nine times after my birth the heaven of light had returned as it were to the same point," wrote the poet, "when there appeared to my eyes the glorious lady of my mind.
Her dress on that day was of a most noble color, a subdued and goodly crimson, girdled and adorned in such sort as best suited her tender age. At that moment I saw most truly that the spirit of life which hath its dwelling in the secretest chamber of the heart began to tremble so violently that the least pulses of my body shook t