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The Lamar Register
Lamar, Prowers County, Colorado
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A document discovered in Ravenna, Italy, reveals Dante Alighieri had a daughter Beatrice who lived and died as a nun in the convent of St. Stephen of the Olives. Dated Sept. 20, 1371, it notes payment for her as prior. As daughter of an exile, she entered the convent after Dante's death and was deprived of her brothers.
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A discovery was made at Ravenna, Italy, a short time ago, of a document proving that Dante had a daughter called Beatrice, who lived and died in the convent of St. Stephen of the Olives, in that town. The document is a receipt found in the archives of Ravenna, and runs in substance as follows:
—On Sept. 20, 1371, Messer Donato, doctor of rhetoric and grammar, paid three ducats to the convent of St. Stephen of the Olives in its quality of prior of Beatrice, daughter of Dante Alighieri, a nun, who died there. On the death of Dante, Beatrice, being left to tarry as she was the daughter of an exile, entered the convent, says the correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette, there to end her days. The events which took place in Ravenna deprived her of her brothers, Co. Novello da Polenta, the own patron of her father, so growing fame of her father, never reached her ears.
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Ravenna, Italy; Convent Of St. Stephen Of The Olives
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Sept. 20, 1371
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Discovery of a document proving Dante Alighieri had a daughter Beatrice who became a nun in the convent of St. Stephen of the Olives in Ravenna and died there. After Dante's death, as daughter of an exile, she entered the convent. Events in Ravenna deprived her of her brothers, and she never heard of her father's growing fame.