Dante's Marriage

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Isabelle Chabot

Abstract

This article examines the few extant documents that trace the marriage of Dante Alighieri and Gemma Donati. The author proposes a revision of the current interpretation of the lost instrumentum dotis, while analysing the problems raised by the document, in particular the doubts surrounding the age of the spouses. Gemma’s dowry will be subsequently discussed through a comparison with the other marriages stipulated at the time in Florence. The paper finally considers the restitution of the dowry to Gemma Donati within the backdrop of the confiscations of the exiles’ goods.

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Chabot, Isabelle. 2014. “Dante’s Marriage”. Reti Medievali Journal 15 (2), 271-302. https://doi.org/10.6092/1593-2214/433.
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Essayes in Monographic Section