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Sordello (sōrdĕl`lō), c.1180–1269?, Italian troubadour. A life of brawling and intrigue took him to Provence, where he served at court. Like other Italian troubadours before him, he wrote in Provençal (see Italian literature Italian literature, writings in the Italian language, as distinct from earlier works in Latin and French. The Thirteenth Century

The first Italian vernacular literature began to take shape in the 13th cent.
..... Click the link for more information. ). His best-known poem, Serventese (1237), is a bitter lament on the death of his patron. Dante gave Sordello a patriot's status in Purgatorio, VI, 73. Robert Browning used him as the subject of a long poem, Sordello (1840).

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