Though Dante had an arranged marriage with the daughter of a powerful  Florentine family, he had also been unrequitedly in love with another woman since he was nine years old: Beatrice Portinari.
Iako su mu dogovorili brak s djevojkom iz jedne moćne firentinske obitelji, Dante je bio nesretno zaljubljen u drugu ženu od svoje devete godine: Beatrice Portinari.