Corso Donati
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Corso Donati was a leader of the Black Guelph faction in 13th- and early 14th- century Florence, one of twelve prominent Florentine citizens summoned by the Pope in 1304 in an attempt to bring peace to the city.
Donati's sister Gemma Donati was the wife of the great poet, Dante Alighieri. Despite their family connection through Dante's marriage to Gemma, Corso had a large amount of animosity towards Dante, presumably because of Dante's professed love for Beatrice Portinari.[citation needed] This was an animosity that only mounted with time as Corso Donati was one of the chief members behind the exiling of Dante Alighieri.
Donati is discussed prominently in Niccolò Machiavelli's History of Florence (chapter V).[1]
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- ^ Machiavelli, Niccolò, History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy, <http://books.google.com/books?id=eGBJAAAAMAAJ>. English translation by Hugo Albert Rennert, Dunne, 1901.
