Growing up poor affects your BRAIN: Children in low-income households show slower activity in key neural.You're taking the piste! Six-legged robot expertly SKIS down a slope in China in unbelievable footage.How a 28-week foetus was preserved within an Egyptian mummy for 2,000 years: Unborn child was 'PICKLED' by.So many of his words appear in the Comedy - he and Dante had the same mind,' she said. 'He would dictate his work on ethics, rhetoric and politics to his students when he returned to Florence. 'Latino was steeped in the classics and during a period of exile in Spain learnt about astronomy and Aristotle's work on ethics, all of which feeds into the Comedy,' said Bolton Holloway. This is a concept used by Dante in Divine Comedy to describe God. Two of the manuscripts she found feature a deign of a square imposed on a circle. 'No copies of Dante's own, handwritten version of the Comedy have been found, but Leonardo Bruni, a later Renaissance scholar who saw Dante's handwriting described it as being similar to the manuscripts I have found.' 'They are the only ones written in the so-called 'cancelleresca' script, which Dante was likely taught by his father and are the only ones on cheap parchment, which makes sense given Dante was poorer than his fellow pupils,' she said. Perhaps it took a woman to pay attention to him,' she said.Ī handwritten manuscript by Dante Alighieri, author of the Divine Comedy (pictured in this posthumus portrait dating to the 14th century), Italy's 'national poet' and father of modern Italian, has been discovered by a nun 'Dante reports that Latino was his former teacher, but he really tarred and feathered him in his work, and as a result he has been overlooked. They date from between the 1280s and 1290s while Dante was a student of Brunetto Latino, a 13th century Italian philosopher, scholar, notary, politician and statesman.īolton Holloway has studied Latino, also known as Latini or Latinus for five decades, and says he appears in Divine Comedy in a section of hell reserved for sodomites. 'The handwriting is schoolboy-like in the early manuscripts but the writing is in excellent Tuscan,' said Bolton Holloway. It explores the sate of the soul after death, presenting an image of divine justice as Dante travels through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise.ĭivine Comedy is studied to this day by all Italian schoolchildren and has been studied by scholars of Italian literature, history and religion for centuries. The Divine Comedy was completed in 1320, a year before Dante died, and is an imaginative vision of the afterlife that was representative of the Western Church.
The writings also provide some insight into his masterwork, the Divine Comedy, including ideas of ethical government which later show up in the book. Bolton Holloway, a British-born researcher who spent time as a hermit in Tuscany after becoming a nun, says the writing 'provides an insight into his genius'.
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