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Cavalcanti is widely regarded as the first major poet of Italian literature: Dante sees in Guido his mentor; his meter, his language deeply inspire his work (cfr. De Vulgari Eloquentia ), though Guido's esthetic materialism would be taken a step further to an entirely new spiritual, Christian vision of the gentler sex, as personified by ...
A contemporary gloss of “Epicurean” as Dante uses it in Inferno 10 is provided by Boccaccio in the Decameron, in a story about the poet Guido Cavalcanti, whose father is among Dante’s Epicureans.
Guido Cavalcanti (born c. 1255, Florence [Italy]—died Aug. 27/28, 1300, Florence) was an Italian poet, a major figure among the Florentine poets who wrote in the dolce stil nuovo (“sweet new style”) and who is considered, next to Dante, the most striking poet and personality in 13th-century Italian literature.
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Canto 11. Themes and Colors Key. Summary. Analysis. While still walking by the heretics' tombs, Dante asks Virgil if he can see the souls who are inside the tombs, since all the tombs lids are off. Virgil says he can, and hints that he understands why Dante is really asking this (he wants to see if anyone he knew from Florence is here).
Why does Dante's use of the past tense in verse 63 ("held in disdain") cause Cavalcante such grief? And why is Dante then confused by this reaction? How does Dante's treatment of his friend, Guido Cavalcanti, symbolically recall his relationship with Guido in real life?
Cavalcanti, Guido (c.1255–1300) - Selected Poems. Guido Cavalcanti. Thirty-Six Selected Poems including ‘Donna me prega’. ‘Six Tuscan Poets’ - Giorgio Vasari, Italy, 1544. Minneapolis Institute of Art. ‘conosco i segni dell’antica fiamma’. Dante Alighieri - Purgatorio XXX 48. Home. Download. © Copyright 2007 A. S. Kline, All Rights Reserved.
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Dante's best friend, Guido Cavalcanti--a few years older than Dante--was an aristocratic white guelph and an erudite, accomplished poet in his own right. Guido's best known poem, Donna me prega ("A lady asks me"), is a stylistically sophisticated example of his philosophical view of love as a dark force that leads one to misery and often to death.
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