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Friendship with Guido Cavalcanti is a dated Florentine lyric public, not a later club and not a Comedy bolgia as a second Fact

Friendship with Guido Cavalcanti is a dated Florentine lyric public. In the causal graph this event strengthens Social Cohesion, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — an improving welfare path.

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Friendship with Guido Cavalcanti is a dated Florentine lyric public. It is not a later club. The Inferno portrait is a different path. Dante Alighieri's documented role is: Vita Nuova names Cavalcanti as first friend. Later Inferno placement is a different path already stored in punishments.

Context

The Vita Nuova row is the book. Sharing that split is required. Driver social-cohesion is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives.

Why it matters

A named lyric friendship is a cohesion path. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Dante Alighieri

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.32 · verified

    Vita Nuova names Cavalcanti as first friend. Later Inferno placement is a different path already stored in punishments.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactFriendship with Guido Cavalcanti is a dated Florentine lyric public, not a later club and not a Comedy bolgia as a second Fact
    2. strengthensDriverSocial Cohesion
    3. strengthensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
    Improving path

    impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 January 1290 · verified

    A named lyric friendship is a cohesion path.

    • Having a say in government

      via Social Cohesion

      Better

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)

      Worse than normal

      Two readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).

      20212023

      Above normal = better

    • Rule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score

      via Social Cohesion

      Better

      Weakens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)

      Worse than normal

      26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.

      Normal is zero · any amount = worse

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Dante, life and politics neighbourhoodStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — Dante Alighieri, Florentine political careerEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Official locator: Britannica — Guido Cavalcanti / Dante neighbourhood at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dante-Alighieri (opens in a new tab) (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent locator: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Dante, Cavalcanti neighbourhood at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dante/ (opens in a new tab) (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Official carrier: Britannica — Guido Cavalcanti / Dante neighbourhood (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dante-Alighieri (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Dante, Cavalcanti neighbourhood (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dante/ (opens in a new tab); Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

Naming Dante Alighieri does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1290-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorDante Alighieri
  2. contributed toFactFriendship with Guido Cavalcanti is a dated Florentine lyric public, not a later club and not a Comedy bolgia as a second Fact
  3. strengthensDriverSocial Cohesion
  4. strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government

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Factrail. (2026). Friendship with Guido Cavalcanti is a dated Florentine lyric public, not a later club and not a Comedy bolgia as a second Fact. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/dan-cavalcanti

https://factrail.ai/facts/dan-cavalcanti

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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