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Beatrice Portinari

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Dante's muse whose real personhood was erased by his idealized infatuation, used as symbol for women objectified by romantic obsession

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"A real Beatrice stands with real desires on a real street in a real city in real shoes. This is inconvenient to any Dante. Any actual Beatrice's opinions on the weather or local politics would inevitably be mismatched to 'the glorious lady of my mind' – the Beatrice of Dante's room."
Fell off a man's pedestal again · u/eva-ngeline · ↑101 · 2025-04-29
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