Dante s Daughter

Their family is then force to pass on their home town of Florence Italy by the co instant dueling of political groups in the cities, between the white-hot disjunctures, who opposed the p papacy twist and the black Gulfs, who supported the papacy. Dante, her father, in comparable manner a white Gulf supporter, went to Rome on business to see Pope Boniface sevenI, when the black Gulfs take over the CIA TTY, the Aligner family knew that they had to come off the city in fear that they would all be k swooninged by ca use of Dents political standing(a) and the fact that he was non present in Florence.Antonio was to fool w her br other(a)s protrude of the city and their become would meet them later, they had to run egress of the city, s he saw galore(postnominal) gruesome events of war firearm she was fleeing the city, she saw the received chaos that came from people during durations of war. Their family had to disperse amongst their relatives and some of her b rooters even went external to become apprentices Gina went to their Uncle Francesco, piece Pitter and Jackpot became ablates with the Dominicans at Santa Maria.As for Antonio she went to substantiation and help with her fathers sister, Deviant, and her family, Disco her uncle who was a carkter, and her cousins Margarita and Foe in Siena. As for her mother, she had went to work on her mothers farms. Antonio lived with her aunt and uncle for nearly five years. Her mother visited her as often as she could. She worked along with Disco in his shop learning to twinget, and hell peed out with the housework with Deviant, Margarita and Lecturer, Discos sister. She had SSH eared a bed with Margarita who was that a couple of years older than her and got to know he r material well.One day Notations father sends a earn to her, inviting her to come along with him to P arise France since he give e studying at the university in that respect, he already offered her brothers to come w tit only they co uld non. unawares after Antonio receives the letter her father. Dante arrived so soon that Antonio had barely gotten to counterbalance up her mind, but she decided to go along with her father on this DVD endure. Through their travels Antonio gets a new understanding of her father. Antonio along with he r inattentive father travel from city to city spending their nights in either societys or with nobles, in their cash tiles. Pond their arrival to Paris, Dante immediately goes to into his studies in search h of new companionship, while in the first couple of days Antonio is just sitting just about the an. Eventually, Antonio met up with an old ally of her fathers, at a Beguine, a community of sings e women living under Nun like conditions but could work to make a living and could break free of an y vows and leave if they like. Antonio decided to outride with the women of the Beguine while her father r studied at the university.The trey ladies Antonio stayed with, Claire, Mate d, and Assess, worked as illumination, an art form make to liven up a page of a book or a document, Antonio helped with her prior acquaintance f painting. Events quickly went downhill for the group of misss, Assess died, and later her mother Claire. As for Antonio, Dante decided that the knowledge he had sought, could d not be obtained at the University and they decided to head back to Italy. Antonio had returned to Siena to stay with her Uncle Discos family again, who ill Dante had left her to work with the emperor of Germany and Italy.Disco was on a new commission that had made them much wealthier, and of figure ein truth wiz was much older than the y were previously. Margarita was soon to be engaged with Pitter, and Antonio had also begun t experience her share of romantic relationships, first with Seeing a loving apprentice to Disco, then Tit ere to Farina, a modern man who lived in Florence, when she had moved there to live with her mother r and uncle. Yet neither one wor ked out, she left Siena forgetting about Seeing, and when the emperor r failed at capturing Florence, the Aligner name meant little and was hated in Florence, so Farina a didnt want to marry her.Notations Family was reunited and continued to live on in a house of their owe n in Vienna. Antonio struggled with what the true meaning of her life was to be with god. S he had gotten malaria, which she was lucky full to surpass. Imbroglio, on of her best friends fro m back in Siena had came to visit her in her State Of illness and cherished to marry her, Antonio agrees and they live happily, until Imbroglio dies of plague. Antonio then decides, knowing her fate, to join the c invent of San Stefan Dogleg Alive.The Historical manufacture raw, Dana?s Daughter had gotten many things right with barely any wrongful descriptions, the creator, Kimberly Houston surely did their homework. Not only did she write this novel spotlessly she did it in SST of the different aspects of the book. Wheth er it was from their lifestyle of different social classes, like what they ate, wore and how they lived, the musical mode they traveled, the events that happened in the time hitch of the early fourteenth century, their beliefs, and even the fact that virtually of the characters actually existed in this time period.The author portrayed the lifestyles of the people in the book really realistically. The roles of women in the 1300 in actuality was to stay home maintain the household, cooking, cleaning and taking care of the children, which was the name roles the author portrayed, the mothers of different households perpetually vigilant their food and spent the day cleaning and tidying up the house. Younger girls like Antonio in the novel helped with such(prenominal) chores like the laundry. In the novel they did the laundry down at the river which was unwashed in that era (McKay, seat P. ). Antonio mother wore a turban when she would clean, which was also accurately explained.Cl othing worn by characters was only described for the females, it was always gowns with different colors, always handmade by the mothers of the household, and silk as precise dressy and expensive. In history, it was common for families to make their own clothing and women only really wore gowns, silk was of the most valuable cloth in this time wander as well (McKay, prank As for the common diet of Italians in the thirteen hundreds, consisted mostly of bread, which was the most important staple of their diet and stews, made of whatever ingredients they could get.Houston wrote about what they would eat, they would always eat bread with olive oil, and Notations mother would always seduce the best soups made from the best ingredients she could mind, which would have been temper for the time period and the wealth of the Aligner family. Between the pair of Antonio and Dante, when they were traveling they had a mule and horse, which only the higher class could spread since many poor p ilgrims could only travel on foot which was accurate for the time too.The Nobility that Dante and Antonio stayed with also had a very descriptive lifestyle differing from the Aligner family. The upper class lived in self-aggrandizing palaces or castles and had feasts very often, in which they ate exotic foods, crayfish, eels in plum sauce, asparagus, cheese tarts, green beans eked in almond milk, articulation venison with garlic, social functionridge stewed with lentils and shallots, chicken cooked with pears and brandy, tiny spring lettuces dressed with olive oil and perceive, junket, strawberry tarts, and many other dishes.The nobility also had the ability to house many subjects they sought useful for their skills. There were two major patrons of Dante, lady Cluenice, and passel Grandee. In history little is known about the true paths Dante had taken, there is no circular of him staying with a lady Cluenice, but there is documentation of him staying with Can Grandee for the reason of Can Grandees interests in the importance and reasoning behind The Divine Comedy, that Dante was writing the evidence is found in the letter that Dante had pen to Can Grandee explaining the books (Aligner, Dante).Dante Aligner was a famous poet in the time period who had written many books the three parts that make up The Divine Comedy, Inferno, Purgatorial, and Paradise, all mentioned in the book positive(p) his writings of other books, and The Banquet, although over fifty poetic works are known from Dante. Antonio was very fascinated by the large structures of the gigantic cathedrals in Paris, mainly Notre dame. She was very intrigued, and found peace amongst its large mosaics held together by lead.This account was very accurate, Notre dame is famous for its large mosaics, and it started its construction in 1160 and finished in 1345, well inside Notations lifetime. Kimberly Houston portrayed the lifestyles of different social groups very accurately throughout the novel. There was one common ailment that multiple people contracted throughout the happening of the book, and it was malaria, a disease carried by mosquito. Antonio had contracted it, and during the time it was about a death sentence (McKay, John P. , yet she survived through it.Antonio had experienced immense pain and was deathly ill, for a couple of weeks, then would endure eight hour long fevers and intense pain that would go away and return two days later. Antonio went through series of pains much like the actual symptoms which were, headaches, fever, lethargy, chills, abdominal pains, sickness, muscular pains, diarrhea, and coughing fits. Kimberly Houston had shown the symptoms characters were experiencing accurately as they would be in the real world. The common scientific beliefs of people in the novel were also of accurate details in the novel.Accurately for this time, people in the story believed in the Ptolemaic system. Which stated that the heavens rotated on big crystal sphe res around the earth. This was the common belief until 1 543, when Copernicus published On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, which proved the earth was not at the center Of the universe (McKay, John Many of the events that took place in the book happened in real life. In the book, King Phillips armies had harried Boniface VII to death, and engineered Clement V into office, and brought the papacy into France.While written accurately, the papacy was stationed in Avignon, France in 1309, in the time frame covered in the book, and in fact it was King Philip IV that that is responsible for both moving the papacy and bringing in a tradition of having French popes. some other event including King Philip IV of France is that there is a scene from the book where the Knights Template and everyone associated with them are world arrested for the Kings benefit. What the book failed to mention is the reasoning behind Philip Avis actions and motives of this action.King Philip IV was very much in debt to the Template, whereas in the novel had explained it s the Template were engaged in unnatural and illegal activities offensive to god (Houston, Kimberley Burton), which was not true since the Template Were a strictly ran group, by the pope, to be a religious army, but King Philip did have them arrested in real history for his own benefit. The Template, described by Houston, were very large, muscular men, with the knowledge of scholars, which is an accurate description of the way the Knights Template would have been since they were knights.Antonio along with the other women of the Beguine, had done work for the Template illume comments, which would have been against the code of the Template to have any contact with women (Temporarily. Com). Another event that took place was the newly elected emperor Henry VII, who in the novel was convinced by Dante Aligner to march on Florence to bring it amongst his empire and to hopefully redeem the Aligner name in Florence, Ita ly.The holy roman emperor Henry VII of Germany historically had the support of Dante, and did wage war on Romancer since they were part of the Gulfs, both Dante and Henry VII were Gibberellins (McKay, John P). Yet another event that occurred in he book happened in Verona, Italy, it was that the palace that Can Grandee lived in was frescoed by an artist named Ghetto, nothing is known of his work in Verona, Ghosts Personality in the book was that he was very enthusiastic and compassionate towards art, he also had a very high pitch girl laugh, Not much is known of his personality although he did work on many frescoes.In addition, the Aligner Family was forced to leave their hometown of Florence by cause of the dueling political parties, the Gibberellins and the Gulfs, which were actual groups at the time which either liked the popes influence on everything or despised it.Lastly, the fall of Rome to the Byzantines and barbarians who began to construct huge basilicas with large mosaics o n the interior, was mentioned towards the latter part of the book, the Byzantines had actually built these large basilicas although it was really the decline of the holy roman empire that brought in these Byzantines and barbarians to influence Rome (McKay, John The options a women could take throughout their life was described in the book as, if they did not get married, they could use their dowry from their parents to join a convent and become a nun, join a Beguine, or become a requisite.This statement made in the book by Antonio is not completely true, not only could women become housewives, nuns, or prostitutes, but they could also work as servants or join a Beguine. In the book none of the younger people had known about Beguines, and even when Antonio had found out she only thought that they existed in France. Although many of the surviving Beguines exist in Belgium albeit there was one in France, and many of the ancient Beguines had existed on the outskirts of Paris, the Beguin e described in the book, sounded like it was nearly in the center OfParis, because it was inwardly a short walking distance to important areas like shops and Dante could be there quickly to visit, plus there were buildings they went to on both sides of the Beguine. The tools and procedures used by the different fine professions were described briefly in the novel, it had listed the linoleum, what processes they would make paints and glues for frames, and the different layers in a fresco. The linoleum was a moon shaped knife meant for preparing diploma by scraping the excess skin and hairs off of pelts.This linoleum knife was actually seed almost exclusively for illuminating because illuminating required a special type of medium to be written on (Illumination parchment). Antonio had known the preparation steps to make this parchment from learning it from Disco he uncle, who was an artist, one would take calf skin stretch it out, scrape the excess skin and impurities from it, then burst out it into separate sheets until of desirable thickness, and then scrape it again with the linoleum to get rid of any glistening surfaces.This process of manufacturing parchment was common through the middle ages and into the Renaissance (Differences teens Parchment, Vellum and Paper. ). When Disco was working on the sight, an actual painting done in sienna by the real Disco (Disco Did Obnoxiousness, Masses Altarpiece), him and his apprentices, would always be asking for egg whites from the girls to mix with pigments from plants, and asking for cheeses which they would use to make their glues to put together frames. Egg whites were in fact used to make the popular paint tempera during the Renaissance, and so was cheese used inn glues during this time period.The base layers of frescoes described in the novel, by Houston, was Ricoh, and intonation, these were the easiest and required the least artistic ability out of the whole Fresco process, and they were the top finishing l ayer and the base starting layer (Categories Terms. ). The author had gotten every detail right, when it came to the tools and procedures that had been used in the making of the artwork in the story. The river systems as described in the novel were the Aaron River of Florence, and the Adage River of Verona.The Main character Antonio had described the Aaron River as Very muddy and not very navigable whereas the Adage River in Verona was better navigable and as a result had more handle coming in. The Aaron River in Florence has many tributaries which makes it harder to navigate and the Adage River does not making it easier to navigate. In Conclusion, the author, Kimberly Houston, did a very good job in the development of Dents Daughter. She had gotten about ninety-nine percent of the detail, events and people right in the development of this book.She had made the fiction life of actual characters very accurate and convincing for the time period. She had gotten the tools and procedure s for original artistic jobs right or the time frame, the correct people doing the right events in the right year, correct descriptions of travel and the river ways, the ways certain groups acted, the food they ate, the clothes they wore, the ideology of the common people, the side effects of malaria, artistic terms, and even the existence Of certain characters and their connection in history.