biography
pronunciation:
[kavalkantee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1255–1300)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Florence, NC Italy. A friend of Dante, he came from an influential family, and was the leader of the ‘white’ Guelph faction. In 1300 he married the daughter of Farinata degli Uberti, the leader of the rival, Imperial Party (the Ghibellines), and was banished to Sarzana, returning to Florence only shortly before his death. A leading exponent of the dolce stil novo (‘new style’), he left 52 compositions, mainly sonnets and canzones. Central to them is a feeling of anxiety; in Donna me prega perch'io voglia dire, love is seen as something that blurs the rational side of human beings. |
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