Italy, Republic of Florence. Repubblica (1189-1533). Fiorino II semestre 1425

Florence Republic 1189-1533 au / Florin II semester 1425 Mir. 8/21 Bernocchi 2436 Fr. 276 NS. 3. 54 Spl. Essay on the edge Rare! On the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Dante's death (1265-1321) , Catawiki is dedicating an auction to the Supreme Poet focused on the coins of his time and on those related to the characters of his Divine Comedy. # dante700memorial DANTE, FLORENCE AND POLITICAL ACTIVITY Shortly after the marriage, Dante began to participate as a knight in some military campaigns that Florence was waging against its external enemies, including Arezzo (battle of Campaldino on 11 June 1289) and Pisa (capture of Caprona, 16 August 1289) . Subsequently, in 1294, he would have been part of the delegation of knights who escorted Carlo Martello d'Angiò (son of Charles II of Anjou) who in the meantime was in Florence. Political activity took Dante from the early 1290s, in a very convulsive period for the Republic. In 1293 the Laws of Giano Della Bella came into force, which excluded the ancient nobility from politics and allowed the bourgeois class to obtain roles in the Republic, as long as they were enrolled in an Art. Dante, as a nobleman, was excluded from city politics until July 6, 1295, when the Temperaments were promulgated, laws that gave back the right to the nobles to hold institutional roles, as long as they enrolled in the Arts. Dante, therefore, enrolled in the Arts. of the Doctors and Apothecaries. The exact set of his political appointments is not known, as the minutes of the assemblies have been lost. However, through other sources, it was possible to reconstruct a large part of his activity: he was in the People's Council from November 1295 to April 1296; it was in the group of the "Savi", who in December 1296 renewed the rules for the election of the priors, the highest representatives of each Art who would have occupied, for a two-month period, the most important institutional role of the Republic; from May to December 1296 he was a member of the Council of the Hundred. He was sometimes sent as an ambassador, as in May 1300 in San Gimignano. In the meantime, within the Florentine Guelph party there was a very serious fracture between the group headed by the Donati, proponents of a conservative and aristocratic policy (black Guelphs) , and that instead proponent of a moderately popular policy (white Guelphs) , headed by Looking family. The split, also due to political and economic reasons (the Donati, exponents of the ancient nobility, had been outclassed in power by the Cerchi, considered by the first to be parvenu) , generated an internal war which Dante did not escape by taking sides, moderately, on the side of the white Guelphs.