Tripti Joshi (Editor)

Guido Guinizelli

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Name
  
Guido Guinizelli

Role
  
Poet

Died
  
1276, Monselice, Italy


Guido Guinizelli wwwscenaillustratacompubliclocalcachevignett

Books
  
POETRY OF GUIDO GUINIZELLI

Similar People
  
Guido Cavalcanti, Cecco Angiolieri, Dante Alighieri, Edoardo Sanguineti

Guido Guinizelli (c. 1230–1276), born in Bologna, in present-day Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy, was an Italian poet and 'founder' of the Dolce Stil Novo. He was the first to write in this new style of poetry writing, and thus is held to be the ipso facto founder.

Guido Guinizelli 3citynewspadovaoggistgyovhmediaoriginalhi

The famous Florentine poet Dante Alighieri considered himself to be a disciple of Guinizelli:

...quand' io odo nomar sé stesso il padremio e de li altri miei miglior che mairime d'amor usar dolci e leggiadre...

The main themes of the Dolce Stil Novo can be found in Guinizelli's Al cor gentil rempaira sempre amore: the angelic beauty of the beloved women, the comparison of nobility to the sun and the rampant use of topoi such as cor gentil and Amore.

Guinizelli's poetry can be briefly described as a conciliation between divine and earthly love with deep psychological introspection. His major works are Al cor gentil rempaira sempre Amore (Within the gentle heart abideth Love), which Peter Dronke considers "perhaps the most influential love-song of the thirteenth century" (Dronke 1965, 57), as well as Io vogli[o] del ver la mia donna laudare and Vedut'ho la lucente stella Diana.

He died in Monselice near Padua.

References

Guido Guinizelli Wikipedia


Similar Topics