Beatrice "Bice" Portinari was Dante's inspiration and "true" love, whom he met when he was 9 and she was 8.
According to Dante, he first met Beatrice when his father took him to the Portinari house for a May Day party.
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Beatrice has also been immortalised in space, as asteroid 83 Beatrix is named in her honour.
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Dante looks longingly at Beatrice (in center) passing by with friend Lady Vanna (red) along the Arno River
It consists of a statue of Beatrice Portinari mounted on an antique statue which was a gift from the city of Rome.
In 2010, she voiced the character of Beatrice Portinari in the video game Dante's Inferno and also starred in Sonny With a Chance on the Disney Channel.
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He also completed in similar style the Canzone di Cino da Pistoia to Dante, on Death of Beatrice, offered to the queen of Italy in occasion of the centenary of Beatrice Portinari.
It was certainly the Donati family's parish church and also contains several tombs of the Portinari family, to which Dante's great love Beatrice Portinari belonged, including Monna Tessa, her nursemaid.