Gualdrada Berti dei Ravignani was a member of the nobility in twelfth-century Florence, Italy.
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11 Facts About Gualdrada Berti
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Around 1180, Gualdrada Berti became the second wife of Count Guido Guerra III "il Vecchio, " an important general of the Guelph party.
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Gualdrada Berti continued to work as a mediator between the Conti Guido and Florence, with records showing her acting as a head of her family to free a monastery owned by the Guidi from an armed Florentine threat.
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Gualdrada Berti lived longer than her husband and died in 1226 in the Poppi Castle, a medieval castle in Poppi, Tuscany, which was owned by one of her sons.
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Gualdrada Berti admired her youthful innocence, the way she dressed, and her personality.
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Gualdrada Berti responded to the emperor stating that if he wished, he could get Gualdrada to kiss him.
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Gualdrada Berti then presented to Gualdrada a large dowry consisting of Casentino and a part of the territory of Romagna.
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The so-called Room of Gualdrada Berti was located in the quarters of Eleanor of Toledo, wife of Cosimo I de' Medici, and it features a painted ceiling of the episode recounted by Villani and Boccaccio painted by the Flemish artist Stradanus, known as Giovanni Stradano, surrounded by detailed scenes of sixteenth-century Florence and allegories of virtue.
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Gualdrada Berti's name appears in Canto XVI, line 37 of Inferno, when Dante meets the Florentine man, Guido Guerra V, in the ring of the Seventh Circle of Hell reserved for the sodomites.
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Dante describes Guerra as the "grandson of the good Gualdrada Berti, " giving him the honor of coming from an admirable family and using Gualdrada Berti's image of a virtuous and good woman to do so.
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Dante himself was not only a Florentine, but a Guelph, so the marriage between Gualdrada Berti, a member of a notable Ghibelline clan, to Guido Guerra III, a Guelph leader, which ended hostilities between the two factions in the city of Florence, is an event that would be understandably important to him and worthy of praise and admiration.
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