FTP name the woman thought to be of the Portinari family, subject of La Vita Nuova and lifelong love of Dante Alighieri.
She is usually identified as Bice (bee-chay), the daughter of a noble Florentine family who married Simone de Bardi and died young in 1290.  At the age of 8, she first met the man who would dedicate his best work to her, as when she first appears with the words "Weep not at Virgil's going; weep not yet, for soon another sword shall give thee cause to weep," in Canto XXX of Purgatorio.  FTP name the woman thought to be of the Portinari family, subject of La Vita Nuova and lifelong love of Dante Alighieri.
She is usually identified as Bice (bee-chay), the daughter of a noble Florentine family who married Simone de Bardi and died young in 1290.  
Beatrice