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Guittone d'Arezzo ( Arezzo, c. 1235 – 1294) was a Tuscan poet and the founder of the Tuscan School. He was an acclaimed secular love poet before his conversion in the 1260s, when he became a religious poet joining the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Guittone d’Arezzo (born c. 1230, Arezzo, Tuscia [Italy]—died 1294, Florence) was the founder of the Tuscan school of courtly poetry. Knowledge of Guittone’s life comes mainly from his writings. Born near Arezzo, he travelled for commercial reasons, being an exile from Arezzo after 1256 for his Guelf sympathies.
Guittone d'Arezzo ( Arezzo, 1230 / 1235 – Firenze, 21 agosto 1294) è stato un poeta e religioso italiano dell' Ordine dei Frati della Beata Gloriosa Vergine Maria ( Gaudenti ).
Jun 9, 2021 · Though little known today, Guittone d’Arezzo was one of the most important – and divisive – figures in the history of Italian literature. For some of his contemporaries, he was a poet of genius, who was worthy of comparison with Ovid and Catullus, and who revolutionised the writing of erotic verse. For others, he was a crude and clumsy ...
I am intensely proud that Digital Dante now hosts the early work of a great scholar: Michelangelo Picone’s original critical edition of Guittone’s moral verse. The PDF is touching with its penciled-in marginalia, and—difficult as it is to use—it is worlds better than nothing at all.
Guittone d'Arezzo (c. 1230–94) in The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature Length: 477 words
Guittone d’Arezzo (ca. 1230-1294) was the most important, prolific, and influential poet and prose writer of the thirteenth century. Unfortunately, his work has been overshadowed by his successor; the more learned and gifted Dante Alighieri.
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