He passed the remainder of his life in troubled spirits, itinerant toil, and exile. Two years after her death, Dante married a lady of noble birth named Gemma, who brought him little, if any, happiness. Dante wrote a sonnet suggesting that God had recalled Beatrice to his side because he regarded the evil and imperfect earth unworthy of her grace. Beatrice married and died at the age of thirty-five. The plot line of the former, mapping in detail the medieval model of the moral cosmos, follows Dante’s progress through purgatory and hell en route to eventual arrival at earthly paradise and ultimate reunion with Beatrice in heaven. He venerated Beatrice and enshrined his love in two masterpieces of literature: The Divine Comedy and A New Life. Not a word was exchanged between them but, according to Dante, Beatrice saluted him with her eyes in such a way that he was electrified by such a vision of courtesy and sublimity that he seemed to "behold the very limits of blessedness." Dante’s obsession with this noble lady was the perfect embodiment of the chivalric ideal.
From the time of this first meeting, she became his guiding passion, his lifelong muse and "soul’s delight." He encountered her a second time nine years later, as she was walking in the streets of Florence in the company of two chaperones.
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