Giacomo da lentini biography
POETS Day! Giacomo da Lentini, Inventor indicate the Sonnet
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Giacomo da Lentini
Meravigliosa-mente
un amor mi distringe
e soven ad ogn'ora.
Com'omo che ten mente
in altro exemplo pinge
la simile pintura,
cosí, bella, facc'eo,
che 'nfra lo core meo
porto la tua figura.
In cor par ch'eo vi porti,
pinta come parete,
e non pare di fore;
o Deo, co' mi par forte
non so se vi savete,
com' v'amo di bon core,
ca son sì vergognoso
ca pur vi guardo ascoso,
e non vi mostro amore.
Avendo gran disio
dipinsi una pintura,
bella, voi simigliante,
e quando voi non vio
guardo 'n quella figura,
par ch'eo v'aggia avante:
sì com'om che si crede
salvare per sua fede,
ancor non via davante.
Al cor m'ard'una doglia,
com'om che te-lo foco
a lo suo seno ascoso,
quando più lo 'nvoglia,
tanto arde più loco
e non pò stare incluso:
similemente eo ardo
quando pass'e non guardo
a voi, vis'amoroso.
S'eo guardo quando passo,
inver'voi no mi giro,
bella, per risguardare;
andando, ad ogni passo
sì getto uno sospiro
che facemi ancosciare;
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Giacomo da Lentini
Giacomo da Lentini is considered the principal poet of the Sicilian school of poetry that flourished in the early thirteenth century in the court of Frederick II and formally initiated the Italian lyric tradition. Acknowledged as a major poetic authority by his contemporaries as well as poets of the next generation like Dante Alighieri, Giacomo is notably thought to be the inventor of the sonnet, a lyric innovation that would exercise immense influence not only on the development of Italian poetry, but also on the whole of European letters as it migrated outward from the Italian peninsula. His love poetry goes beyond translating courtly love from pre-existing medieval lyric traditions like the Occitan and Minnesang in distilling elements of science and philosophy that raise the level of…
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