17 Facts About Guido Cavalcanti

Guido Cavalcanti was a friend and intellectual influence on Dante Alighieri.

Guido Cavalcanti was born in Florence at a time when the comune was beginning its economic, political, intellectual and artistic ascendancy as one of the leading cities of the Renaissance.

Guido Cavalcanti was the son of Cavalcante de' Guido Cavalcanti, a Guelph whom Dante condemns to torment in the sixth circle of his Inferno, where the heretics are punished.

In 1267, as part of a political reconciliation, Guido Cavalcanti married Beatrice, the daughter of Ghibelline party leader Farinata degli Uberti.

Guido Cavalcanti refused to occupy a position as a merchant, as he felt it offensive to his station and his heritage.

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Guido Cavalcanti allied himself to the Cerchi, and outwardly expressed his disdain for his rival, Corso Donati.

Guido Cavalcanti was sent to Sarzana, where, after only a few months he decided to try to return to Florence.

Guido Cavalcanti was a part of the Tuscan poetic movement known as the Dolce stil novo, whose members are referred to by their Tuscan name, the stilnovisti.

Scholars have commented on the Dolce stil novo with Dante as probably the most spiritual and platonic in his portrayal of Beatrice, but Cino da Pistoia is able to write poetry in which "there is a remarkable psychological interest in love, a more tangible presence of the woman, who loses the abstract aura of Guinizzelli and Guido's verse", and Guido Cavalcanti interprets love as a source of torment and despair in the surrendering of self to the beloved.

Guido Cavalcanti tells Dante of how desire, how "wanting" has ruined his heart.

Love then warns him not to send this poem to Dante, who is not ready to deal with Guido Cavalcanti's condition, given the depth of friendship Dante feels for him.

Guido Cavalcanti says he was prompted to write it by his mistress, according to a formula very widespread in the tradition of love poetry.

The merit of such philosophy in Guido Cavalcanti's verse is its ability to describe what goes through the poet's mind in a very detailed, personal manner, creating sensuous, autobiographic poetry.

Guido Cavalcanti's name arrives once more in Purgatory XI, mentioned by Oderisi da Gubbio to Dante on the terrace of pride.

The former employs the fame of Guido Guinizelli, soon overpowered by that of Guido Cavalcanti, to justify the fleeting nature of fame in their larger discussion of vanity.

Guido Cavalcanti would be studied with perhaps more interest during the Renaissance, by such scholars as Luigi Pulci and Pico della Mirandola.

Guido Cavalcanti was to become a strong influence on a number of writers associated with the development of Modernist poetry in English.