And for today's sorrowful episode of "Rants Utterly Unrelated To The Topic Of My Blog" we haveeeeeee him.
The man the myth the legend Dante Alighieri, specifically the topic of this ramble will be the people of the FUCKASS app that is tiktok taking their education from teen titans go parody episodes and refusing to let their crusty oily fingers caress the shummery plasticized pages of a school book.
What have they done you might ask? They have the NERVE to accuse Dante of emotionally cheating on his wife Gemma Donati. LIKE YEAH OBVIOUSLY??? WE WERE ALL VERY AWARE?? These people CANNOT be this dense to not be able to comprehend that all marriages in the 13-14th century were forced and arranged, BOTH.THE.BRIDE.AND.GROOM.WERE. FORCED TO GET MARRIED AND HAVE KIDS. BOTH.
Appying the concept of emotional cheating on people from the middle ages is deadass insane like are we being for real dude.
These tiktok "literates" and "bookworms" think theyre the shit and go throw shade on Dante and they completely ignore the fact that documents studied by scholars show that Dante's marriage with Gemma was arranged in 1277. WHEN DANTE WAS 12. TWELVE. AND GEMMA WAS EVEN YOUNGER. They were both victims of their time and families, blaming Dante for something the entire society he lived in is responsible for is such bullshit.
Tiktok airheads bring up Gemma's recently discovered letters and they use their 5 burnt up neurons to say that her writing went unrecognized because her husband overshadowed her. YOU CANT MAKE THIS UP BRO PLEASEEEEEEEE YEAH OBVIOUSLY SHE WASNT RECOGNIZED BECAUSE OF DANTE AND NOT BECAUSE SHE WAS A WOMAN IN THE MIDDLE AGES BIG DAWG.
Dont get me wrong those letters tear my heart apart, but i don't feel it right to blame Dante for not loving and not writing about someone he was, again, FORCED to marry and FUCKING REPRODUCE WITH.
Them tiktok imbeciles even dared to say Dante used Gemma for sex since they had 4 children and this baffles me. Did history become illegal? How hard can it be for these people to understand that in ANY period before the Industrial Revolution (and for a relatively large time after too) mortality rates for children where FAT as FUCK? Like actually humongous.
Couples were encouraged and basically dutybound to have as many children as possible because the chance of a good amount of them dying were extremely high, and having an heir back then was extremely important, expecially for rich families (both Gemma and Dante belonged to aristocratic families).
Im not gonna get into the medieval literature and tropes and Dolce Stilnovo talk because else ts would take me all night to write but yeah the last thing i wanna complain about is that SOME OF THE PEOPLE SPITTING THIS BULLSHIT ABOUT DANTE ARE ITALIAN. IN SCHOOL WE STUDY THIS FUCKER MORE THAN WE STUDY ANY POET EVER AND YOU STILL MANAGE TO FUCK UP THIS BAD?? THE MAN FROM THE MIDDLE AGES YOU'RE CALLING A MISOGINIST IS THE REASON WHY YOU'RE SPEAKING YOUR FOTTUTA LINGUA DI MERDA SO STOP SPEAKING IF YOU'RE GONNA SHADE HIM FOR NO REASON.
And the funniest thing is that Dante was actually progressive as fuck for his time period, claiming in his De Monarchia that he thought women deserved higher education too, and in fact he wrote that book (a sort of encyclopedia) claiming that he was writing it for all the people who, INCLUDING women, whom he explicitely mentioned as being part of his target audience, wanted to learn but couldn't through any other means.
Alright that wraps the crash out up, hope yall enjoyed seeing me flip out.
