Word: passional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TULA. In this faultless first film, Spanish Director Miguel Picazo offers an austere and chilling portrait of a still-beautiful spinster (Aurora Bautista) whose unyielding virtue quells her passion for her dead sister's husband...
...heaven through the refining fires of purgatory, has been widely considered the greatest poem ever composed; and its author has been virtually deified by the critics. T. S. Eliot pronounced him "the most universal of poets in the modern languages," and added: "Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion; Dante the greatest altitude and greatest depth. They divide the modern world between them; there is no third...
...response was historic. Soon after Beatrice's death, Dante published La Vita Nuova (The New Life), a history of his passion that was interspersed with some of the purest love lyrics in the language. Some time before 1294, still in his 20s, Dante married a Florentine noblewoman named Gemma Donati, by whom he had three sons and a daughter. He also instituted a series of sensual liaisons, and to one of these women he wrote some of the most ferocious love poetry ever penned...
...show no pity nor be courteous, But rather play at passion like a bear; And if love scourge me now because...
Exile & Consolation. With a passion equally ferocious, Dante hurled himself into politics. By 1300, thanks to his partisan zeal and forensic brilliance, he was one of the six principal executives of Florence; but in 1301 he met with a political disaster. The French marched on Florence and established Dante's enemies in power. Condemned in absentia to death by burning, Dante for the last 20 years of his life wandered in exile from the "bella citta" he loved. Most of his political colleagues sooner or later won remission of exile, but Dante proudly refused to compromise his principles...