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Dolce Stil Nuovo
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Dolce Stil Nuovo 

(sweet new style, in Italian), an Italian school of poetry of the late 13th century. Its head was the Bolognese poet G. Guinizelli; among his followers were the Florentine poets G. Cavalcanti, the young Dante, and D. Frescobaldi. Dolce stil nuovo poetry was characteristic of the Italian preRenaissance in central and northern Italy when self-knowledge and interest in the inner world of the individual were developing. Dolce stil nuovo poets sang an ennobling, exalted love of woman. However, in some poems (especially those by Cavalcanti) love was a cruel force, inspiring fear and confusion. The main poetic virtues of the school were the elegance and musicality of the verse form.

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Gaspari, A. Istoriia ital’ianskoi literatury, vol. 1. Translated by K. Bal’mont. Moscow, 1895.
Storia della letteratura italiana, vol. 1. Milan, 1965.


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It is both liturgical and secular in nature, and it passes through periods parallel to those of Italian literature (from the dolce stil novo to the Renaissance, from the Baroque to classicism), adapting various poetic forms that are essentially Italian, such as the sonnet or the "Dantesque" terzina, and also drawing upon the Hebrew poetic tradition, which flourished essentially in the Arabic-speaking Spain of the tenth to the twelfth centuries.
Ginsberg's "Dante's Aesthetics of Being" is a very illuminating essay on Dante's meeting with Bonagiunta da Lucca in Purgatorio 24 as a consideration of Dante's aesthetics of the dolce stil novo, one based on identity and being.
 
 
 
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