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Cavalcanti was the son of Cavalcante de' Cavalcanti, a Guelph whom Dante condemns to torment in the sixth circle of his Inferno, where the heretics are punished. Unlike Dante, Guido was an atheist. As Giovanni Boccaccio (Decameron, VI, 9) wrote during the generation after Cavalcanti's death, " Si diceva tralla gente volgare che queste sue ...
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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O you who often bear Love in your eyes. ‘O donna mia, non vedestù colui’. O, my lady, have you not seen One. ‘ Io vidi li occhi dove Amor si mise’. I saw the eyes where Love resides, ‘Un amoroso sguardo spiritale’. A spiritual, a loving gaze moreover, ‘Voi che per li occhi mi passaste ‘l core’.
Guido Cavalcanti (c.1250–1300) of Florence was one of the first to create a new style of poetry, the dolce stil nuovo, that was to inspire Dante. Cavalcanti's poetry sings of relationships and the metaphors of love that transcend the sexual and the romantic. Cirigliano breaks with Rossetti’s and Pound’s translations in offering the ...
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Guido Cavalcanti (c. 1255 – 1300) was an Italian poet who was one of the founding members of one of the most important movements in all of medieval poetry, the Dolce Stil Novo ("The Sweet New Style") which in the eyes of many scholars would mark the transition from the classical poetry of the medieval world to the new emerging styles of what would become the Renaissance.
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May 11, 2018 · A biography of the Italian poet and philosopher who influenced Dante and the dolce stil nuovo. Learn about his life, works, and views on love, philosophy, and religion.
Achievements. The extant poems of Guido Cavalcanti number fewer than threescore; when taken together, however, they are compelling evidence that he was one of the finest Italian poets of his age ...
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