![]() The Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor were political rivals for much of this time period, and in general the Guelfs were in favor of the Pope, while the Ghibellines supported Imperial power. The Guelfs and the Ghibellines were the two major factions, and in fact that division was important in all of Italy and other countries as well. Renaissance Florence was a thriving, but not a peaceful city: different opposing factions continually struggled for dominance there. Politics as well as love deeply influenced Dante's literary and emotional life. Dante attributed all the heavenly virtues to her soul and imagined, in his masterpiece The Divine Comedy, that she was his guardian angel who alternately berated and encouraged him on his search for salvation. In fact, Beatrice married another man, Simone di' Bardi, and died when Dante was 25, so their relationship existed almost entirely in Dante's imagination, but she nonetheless plays an extremely important role in his poetry. ![]() He first saw the woman, or rather the child, who was to become the poetic love of his life when he was almost nine years old and she was some months younger. Dante Alighieri was born in the city-state Florence in 1265. ![]() Dante Alighieri, or simply Dante (May 14/J– September 13/14, 1321), is one of the greatest poets in the Italian language with the comic story-teller, Boccaccio, and the poet, Petrarch, he forms the classic trio of Italian authors. ![]()
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The olinguito, a native of the Andes, which looks part mongoose, part teddy bear. The lushly white-coated Saki, an arboreal monkey from the Brazilian rainforests. The tiny, lungless Thorius salamander from southern Mexico, thinner than a match and smaller than a quarter. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() OL2191789W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 95.41 Pages 198 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1299161707 Urn:lcp:sisteroutsideres00lord:epub:e2cfee47-8a1c-4038-b319-425d382410cb Extramarc MIT Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier sisteroutsideres00lord Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9c54q032 Isbn 9780895941411Ġ895941414 Lccn 84001844 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_module_version 0.0.5 Ocr_parameters -l eng Openlibrary OL2840011M Openlibrary_edition Sister Outsider reflects Lorde’s commitment to the struggle against racism, sexism, patriarchy, anti-gay bias (what Lorde calls homophobia), heterosexism, and classism. Urn:lcp:sisteroutsideres00lord:lcpdf:40b0738a-5fcb-4e2d-85e4-bf05165d8d32 Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches was published in 1984, and it is Audre Lorde’s second published collection of prose. And this fact is only threatening to those women who still define the master’s house as their only source of support. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:44:00 Boxid IA173601 Boxid_2 CH117401 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Freedom, CA Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 10. For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. ![]() |