ITA233H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cino Da Pistoia, Guido Cavalcanti, Guido Guinizelli
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Reviewed main characteristics of the courtly love tradition (provence xi xiii) centuries. Looked at how it gets transformed once on the italian peninsula. Cino da pistoia and guido guidicelli and guido cavalcanti. Tragic vision of love, love as death (charles singleton) Embedded in the tradition of love poetry from provence, starting from bologna. Canonical moments celebrated in these ideal love stories by the stilnovists. Love is a ritual for the elected few (criterion for discrimination: not social, but spiritual and moral. Praises for the lady ever more idealized & spiritualized. One day it happened that this most gracious lady pg 6 you give your beloved another name as not to ruin her reputation. Love is a ritual for an elected few. Other stilnovisti provencal trabadour tradition some other aspects of those who are admitted to love is not a social one, it is spiritual. Love and the noble heart are always one, (quoting guinizelli and recognizing) guinizelli love vs. fire,
