Guinizelli Guido

Background

Guido Guinizzelli was born in Bologna, Italy in 1230. He was a scion of the noble Magnani family.

Career

Guinizzelli lived at times when The Studio (University) at Bologna was a forcing ground of ideas - theological, philosophical, juridical, and grammatical. Emperor Frederick II (1194-1250) had revived interest in Aristotelianism as carried further by the commentary of St. Thomas Aquinas (1226-1274), and professors and scholars from Italy and other parts of Europe flocked to Bologna, a commercial crossroads where learning was fostered. It was in this milieu that Guinizelli lived his life, save for a year at Castelfranco, near Modena, when he was about 30, and the last two years of his life, which he spent in exile when the Ghibelline faction, headed by the Lambertazzi and to which he belonged, was expelled. Guinizzelli died in exile at Monselice in 1276.

Achievements

• Guinizzelli established a new poetry style known as the dolce stil nuovo ("sweet new style").
  
  

Works

• Other Work

  • poetries

  • "Al cor gentil rempaira sempre Amore"

  • "Voglio del ver la mia donna laudare"

  • "Vedut'ho la lucente stella Diana"