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- What school would you like to go to after you graduate?:
- Anything but community college
- Hometown:
- Florence, Italy
- Relationship Status:
- Married
- Favorite Book:
- Dolce Stil Novo ("The Sweet New Style")
- Why is it your favorite book:
- The thirteenth century is the century of the "sweet new style," the dolce stil nuovo, of the Gothic, which borrowed motifs from the Saracen, observed in Spain, Sicily, and the Jerusalem Kingdom, where the Christian culture encountered through its crusades and its pilgrimages the rich pluralism of the other Peoples of the Book, and made that ultra-civilized material ultra-Christian in contradistinction to the Romanesque, which it now chose to interpret as Oldness, whether Roman or Judaic, Hellenic or Hebraic.
- Who was your hero growing up and why? (Trust us, this will make a great College Essay):
- Diego Abantantuono, Roberto Benigni, Fred Buscaglione, Adriano Celentano, Aldo Fabrizi, Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Daniele Luttazzi, Nino Manfredi, Enrico Montesano, Renato Pozzetto, Alberto Sordi, Jeff Duran, Totò, Carlo Verdone, Paolo Villaggio
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Dante's Biography
Dante Alighieri, or simply Dante, (May 14/June 13, 1265 – September 13/14[1], 1321) was an Italian poet from Florence. His central work, the Commedia (The Divine Comedy), is considered the greatest literary
work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature. [citation
needed] In Italian he is known as "the Supreme Poet" (il Sommo Poeta).
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