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dolce stil nuovo| A style of Italian lyric verse written between about 1250 and 1300. It was characterized by musicality, the spiritualization of courtly love, and a mystical and philosophical strain in the analysis of love. It was expressed in sonnets, canzoni, and ballads. The style was developed by Guido Guinizelli (c. 1240–1276), Guido Cavalcanti, Gino da Pistoia (c. 1265–c. 1336), and above all Dante, whose lyrics in his La vita nuova, inspired by his love for Beatrice, are the finest examples of the dolce stil nuovo. It greatly influenced Petrarch and through him many later Italian poets. |
| The term was coined by Dante in Purgatorio XXIV 57. |
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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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