The Poetry of Guido Cavalcanti
by
Guido Cavalcanti
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The fact that Cavlacanti’s friend, Dante Alighieri, was a supremely fine poet ought not blind us to Cavalcanti’s own, rather different excellence. Both men were attracted to the dolce stil nuovo, the “sweet new style” that emerged in thirteenth-century Florence. While Dante’s poetry was...