# Dante stands with the White Guelphs against Black Guelphs and papal-French pressure, a factional alignment not a later party

Date: 1301

## The fact

Dante stood with the White Guelphs against Black Guelphs and papal-French pressure. The instrument is that factional alignment, not a later party brand. Dante Alighieri's documented role is: He is identified with the Whites. Corso Donati and Boniface VIII are counterparts. He did not command a modern party.

## Context

Corso Donati is a named Black counterpart. Sharing that factional city is required. The setting of Dante stands with the White Guelphs against Black Guelphs and papal-French pressure, a factional alignment not a later party is the public file around 1301-01-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [political-polarization](/drivers/political-polarization) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Britannica — Dante, White Guelph neighbourhood at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dante-Alighieri (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent locator: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Dante, Florentine factions at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dante/ (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Official carrier: Britannica — Dante, White Guelph neighbourhood (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dante-Alighieri; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Dante, Florentine factions (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dante/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

Official or archival record: Britannica — Dante, White Guelph neighbourhood (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dante-Alighieri; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Worsening path from Dante stands with the White Guelphs against Black Guelphs and papal-French pressure, a factional alignment not a later party on 1301-01-01. A named faction alignment that ends in exile is a polarisation path. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

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

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of Dante stands with the White Guelphs against Black Guelphs and papal-French pressure, a factional alignment not a later party under 1301-01-01 for Dante Alighieri. Established: a sourced public record of Dante stands with the White Guelphs against Black Guelphs and papal-French pressure, a factional alignment not a later party under 1301-01-01.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not store later Risorgimento readings as 1301. Mixed effects of Dante stands with the White Guelphs against Black Guelphs and papal-French pressure, a factional alignment not a later party are separate paths.

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

The attached driver is political-polarization. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Shared responsibility is part of Dante stands with the White Guelphs against Black Guelphs and papal-French pressure, a factional alignment not a later party. Naming Dante Alighieri does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1301-01-01 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.

## People

- Dante Alighieri: https://factrail.ai/people/dante-alighieri

## Drivers

- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization

## Sources

- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dante/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dante-Alighieri

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/dan-white-guelph