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GUIDO CAVALCANTI (c. 1250-1300)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 561 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CAVALCANTI (c. 1250-1300)  , See also:Italian poet and philosopher, was the son of a philosopher whom See also:Dante, in the Inferno, condemns to torment among the Epicureans and Atheists; but he himself was a friend of the See also:great poet . By See also:marriage with See also:Beatrice, daughter of Farinata Uberti, he became See also:head of the Ghibellines; and when the See also:people, weary of continual brawls, aroused themselves, and sought See also:peace by banishing the leaders of the See also:rival parties, he was sent to See also:Sarzana, where he caught a See also:fever, of which he died . See also:Cavalcanti has See also:left a number of love sonnets and canzoni, which were honoured by the praise of Dante . Some are See also:simple and graceful, but many are spoiled by a mixture of See also:metaphysics borrowed from See also:Plato, See also:Aristotle and the See also:Christian Fathers . They are mostly in See also:honour of a See also:French See also:lady, whom he calls Mandetta . His See also:Canzone d'Amore was extremely popular, and was frequently published; and his See also:complete poetical See also:works are contained in Giunti's collection (See also:Florence, 1527; See also:Venice, 1531-1532) . He also wrote in See also:prose on See also:philosophy and See also:oratory . See D . G . See also:Rossetti, Dante and his Circle (1874) .

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