Guido Guinizelli

Guido Guinizelli (* around 1230 in Bologna, † 1276 in Monselice in Padua ) was an Italian poet and founder of the literary movement Dolce stil novo.

Biography

As the son of a judge, he followed the career of his father and, after he had studied law in Bologna, lawyer and was simultaneously involved in the political life of his city, which was split by the two political parties of the Guelphs and Ghibellines. 1270 he was appointed Podestà of Castelfranco Emilia, however, when the Guelph party in 1274 won the victory, the Ghibelline Guinizelli was exiled, and found in Monselice, along with his wife and son, refuge. He died a few years later ibid.

Work

Guinizelli is considered one of the greatest poets of his time. His Rime ( Rhymes ) are the basis of the later by Dante Alighieri in his Dolce stil novo (it., Sweet New Style ') movement designated as the 24th canto of his Divine Comedy Purgatory, telling by the words of the poet Bonagiunta Orbicciani, presenting his poetic principles after Dante has expressed him his own foundations. Dante recognizes the characteristics that distinguish the intent of love poems in the Sicilian school of poetry whose Guittone d' Arezzo was a fan of the sweet-toothed New Style). In the song, Al cor gentil rempaira semper amore ( " rempaira " is a Provençal word for ' home '), put Guinizelli by the kinship between love and noble spirit. The song is a " manifesto " of the new movement, which wanted the court and Provencal poetry, remain the only remote references in the poetry overcome. Guinizelli sang a love that is a principle of moral distinction and promotion, a love that exists and defines the cannon of the new school of poets from individual virtue and noble spirit in the natural world order of the creature.

" Al cor gentil rempaira semper amore come l' ausello in a la selva veggies; né fe 'amor che anti gentil core, né gentil core anti ch'amor, natura »

In the former middle and northern Italy flourished as a bourgeois essence the Comuni in whose company the terms of the noble One was a spiritual virtue rather than the hereditary characteristic and also the close relationship between noble spirit ( nobiltà d' animo ), and developed the ability to love. A typical feature of the new literary movement whose Guinizelli was a champion of, the donna angelo ( Angel Woman), the image of women as posted by the god angel who was able to clear the mind of the lover and him from sin to lead heavenly Seelung. These terms were given a depression in both the philosophical and the psychological sense, which reproduced with high accuracy, the effects of love on the Spirit of the lovers.

The lyrical and ideological model Guinizelli settled in Florence a group of poets ( Fedeli d' Amore ) stimulate whose greatest representative Guido Cavalcanti and Dante Alighieri were that in some of the rhymes of youth, particularly in the vita nuova, the psychological analysis love deepened and reiterated the theme of woman as virtuous creature 's saving. At the Dolce stil novo was also referenced in the Canzoniere of Francesco Petrarch, who was the dominant model of Italian and European poetry at least until the 17th century.