Dolce Stil Novo

The dolce stil nuovo (also: dolce stil novo, dt: " sweet new style "; Stilnovismus ) is a literary movement in Italy in the 13th and 14th centuries.

Characteristic of this style that originated in northern Italy (mainly in Florence) under the influence of the Sicilian school of poetry and the Trobadordichtung was the love theme. The love ( amore ) is considered excessive and as a divine force corresponding to the Platonic doctrine of ideas and courtly literary views and described with a sophisticated system of metaphors and symbols. New is the introspection of the poet who describes the effect of female beauty on his soul in detail, but it mainly emphasis on linguistic sophistication and fewer places on authentic representation of the experience. For the description of the beauty of his adored wife, the poet of the dolce stil nuovo find a variety of images; the beloved appears as a heavenly beings, angels, divine bride and is moved into the realm of the supernatural. Literary expressions of poetry are especially sonnets and canzoni. It is significant that no longer only the nobility of blood is in the foreground, but the heart noble, the noble sentiments of the people is celebrated in itself. Thus, the dolce stil nuovo is also associated with the beginning of the humanism of the Renaissance and the emancipatory aspirations of the urban middle class, which gives an early stage in the Italian city- republics own voice.

As a first important representative of this style applies Guido Guinizelli with the poem Al cor gentil rempaira semper amore. In addition, it belong to Cino da Pistoia, Lapo Gianni, Gianni Alfani, and Dino Frescobaldi. His heyday reached the style in Dante Alighieri, who gives in his Vita Nova about his love for his Beatrice expression. From Dante stems the term of the dolce stil nuovo. Francesco Petrarch's poems in which he describes his love for Laura, are still ultimately discharge the dolce stil nuovo, simultaneously justified Petrarch development of love poetry as Petrarchism a style that exerts a strong influence on the development of European poetry.

• Middle Ages ( literature)
• Poetry
• Literature ( Italian)