Cavalcante de' Cavalcanti
- Cavalcante de' Cavalcanti
Cavalcante de' Cavalcanti (flourished c. 1250; died c. 1280) was a Florentine Epicurian philosopher and father of Guido Cavalcanti, a close friend of Dante Alighieri.
Cavalcanti was a wealthy member of the Guelph faction of Florentine aristocrats. Cavalcanti was a merchant banker who, with others, lent money under usurious conditions during the crusades with the consent and support of the papacy.ref|Holloway In 1257 Cavalcanti served as podesta (chief magistrate) of the Umbrian city Gubbio. Following the 1260 victory of the Ghibellines over Florentine Guelphs in the Battle of Montaperti, Calvancanti went into exile in the Tuscan city Lucca. He returned from exile in 1266 and married his son Guido to the daughter of Farinata degli Uberti, a prominent Ghibelline.
Despite Cavalcanti's alignment with the papacy-supporting Guelphs, he was denounced as a heretic. It is possible that he was an atheist, like his son.
In lines 52-72 of the tenth canto of Dante's "Inferno", the poet converses with Cavalcanti about his son, Guido, and depicts the dead father as a doting parent. Dante represents Cavalcanti and Farinata as neighbors in the same tomb in Hell, but without any interaction between them.
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*cite book|last=Hollander|first=Robert|title=Dante: The Inferno|city=New York|publisher=Doubleday|year=2000|ISBN=0-385-49697-4|page=180–182
* cite book|first=Julia|last=Bolton Holloway, Julia Bolton|chapter=Bankers and their books|title=Sweet New Style: Brunetto Latino, Dante Alighieri, Geoffrey Chaucer, Essays, 1981-2005|year=2005 [http://www.florin.ms/Bankers.html]
*cite book|last=Lansing|first=Richard (ed.)|title=The Dante Encyclopedia|city=New York|publisher= Garland|year=2000|ISBN=0-8153-1659-3
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