Guido Cavalcanti

Type Figure Region Italy Time c. 1255–1300 Also known as Guido Cavalcanti degli Alberti

Guido Cavalcanti (c. 1255–1300) was an Italian poet and Florentine nobleman, a central figure of the Dolce Stil Novo movement whose lyric poetry blen…

Timeline

c. 1255–1280Florence · FlorenceCavalcanti came from a prominent Florentine family, received a good education in his youth, became a leading figure of the Dolce Stil Novo school, and was known for his love poems and philosophical short verses, becoming a poetic friend of Dante.
1300Florence · FlorenceIn 1300 he was exiled to the Tuscan coast amid Guelph political struggles; that August, while returning to Florence, he contracted malaria and died, and Dante recalled him in the Purgatorio of the Divine Comedy.

Sources

Guido Cavalcanti — Encyclopaedia Britannica https://www.britannica.com/biography/Guido-Cavalcanti