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Early Italian Poets; From Cuillo D'alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100-1200-1300) in the Original Metres Together With Dante's Vita Nuova
Early Italian Poets From Cuillo D'alcamo to Dante Alighieri in the Original Metres Together With Dante's Vita Nuova - 1100-1200-1300 Author:Dante Gabriel Rossetti General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1904 Original Publisher: George Newnes Subjects: Italian poetry English poetry Italian literature Literary Criticism / European / Italian Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Poetry / Continental European Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the ori... more »ginal. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: XIV. GlACOMINO PUGLIESI, KNIGHT OF PRATO, I2SO. Of this poet there seems nothing to be learnt; but he deserves special notice as possessing rather more poetic individuality than usual, and also as furnishing the only instance, among Dante's predecessors, of a poem (and a very beautiful one) written on a lady's death. XV. Fra Guittone D'arezzo, 1250. Guittone was not a monk, but derived the prefix to his name from the fact of his belonging to the religious and military order of Cavalieri Gaudenti. He seems to have enjoyed a greater literary reputation than almost any writer of his day ; but certainly his poems, of which many have been preserved, cannot be said to possess merit of a prominent kind; and Dante shows by various allusions that he considered them much over-rated. The sonnet I have given is somewhat remarkable, from Petrarch's having transplanted its last line into his Trionfi (FAmore (cap. in.). Guittone is the author of a series of Italian letters to various eminent persons, which are the earliest known epistolary writings in the language. XVI. Bartolomeo Di Sant' Angelo, 1250. XVII. Saladino Da Pavia, 1250. XVIII. BONAGGIUNTA URBICIANI, DA LUCCA, 1250. XIX. Meo Abbracciavacca, Da Pistoia, 1250. XX. Ubaldo Di Marco, 1250. XXI. SlMBUONO GlUDICE, 1250. XXII. Masolino Da Todi, 1250. XXIII. Onesto Di Boncima, Bolognese, 1250. Onesto was a doctor of laws, and an early friend of C...« less