![]() His interest in poetry and philosophy appears to have deepened as he stepped away from political life, although the exile was always painful for him. In 1302, as a member of the offshoot known as the White Guelphs, Dante was exiled from Florence, after which he wandered Europe and Italy for a number of years. ![]() After the Guelph victory, Dante seems to have taken at least a modest role in Florentine politics. As a young man, Dante fought for the Guelphs at the battle of Campaldino in 1289. According to autobiographical writings, Dante met a girl named Beatrice Portinari when he was still a child, and he loved her long before he was settled into an arranged marriage with a woman named Gemma Donati, with whom he had several children. Little is known of Dante’s youth, except that he was born into a family that supported Florence’s Guelph political faction. ![]()
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