unable to find translations of these lines of La Geste Francor available online, so I am unable to clarify the majority of her biography. € Beatrice . [bē'ətrĭs, ITAL. bāätrē'chā.] ( pr. n. ) Beatrice Portinari was Dante Alighieri's famed love who (in Dante's Divine Commodia )  masterminded his epic passage