Dante - Palazzo Portinari-Salviati - Florence, Italy - Etched in Stone on Waymarking.com

THE PLAQUE
The plaque honoring Dante Alighieri can be found in the facade of the Palazzo Portinari-Salviati and has a quote of his Book.

quote:

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Sovra candido vel, cinta d'oliva
Donna m'apparve sotto Verde manto
Vestita del color di fiamma viva.
DANTE, Purgatorio. XXX, 3 1 -33.

In white veil with olive wreathed
A virgin in my view appeared, beneath
Green mantle robed in hue of living flame.
H. F. Gary's tranlation.
Translation taken from: (visit link)

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Dante Alighieri
"Durante degli Alighieri, simply referred to as Dante (c. 1265–1321), was a major Italian poet of the Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called La Comedia and later called Divina by Boccaccio, is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.
In Italy he is known as il Sommo Poeta ("the Supreme Poet") or just il Poeta. He, Petrarch and Boccaccio are also known as "the three fountains" or "the three crowns". Dante is also called the "Father of the Italian language"."
From: (visit link)

Palazzo Portinari-Salviati
"Here Folco Portinari, Beatrice's father , the muse of Dante Alighieri, and founder of the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova , had some houses that during the fifteenth century they were transformed into a veritable palace . In 1456 it was bought from Jacopo Salviati , husband of Lucrezia de ' Medici, who had it enlarged and modernize by an architect unknown , perhaps Michelozzo for the initial project , then developed by Giuliano da Sangallo. A century later, the palace was then its current form thanks to the work of Bramante Lazzeri .
Lived there Jacopo's daughter , Maria Salviati , her husband Giovanni delle Bande Nere and their son, the future Cosimo I of Tuscany . A popular legend tells that one day , because John wanted to have a prediction on the future character of his son, if he did jot down a second-floor window by his wife, while he was to receive it on their arms in the middle of the street. His son performed the flight without crying and Giovanni delle Bande Nere noted that this child would have been a brave man."
Translated From: (visit link)

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