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| Dante lives again in Umbria | The lustful Guido Guinizelli and Arnaut Daniel | ||
Dante meets Guido Guinizelli who is the first of a series of people who committed the sin of lust. Guinizelli was the poet who had written the manifesto of the stil novo poetic movement, "Al cor gentil reimpaira sempre amore", 015 which was to greatly influence the following generation of Italian poets of which Dante was a leading member. Because of this, Dante would like to run to embrace his maestro but the flames keep him back. Guido Guinizelli says to Dante, "O brother, this man whom I indicate with my finger" and he pointed to a spirit before him "was the best craftsman of his mother tongue." In this we realise that the figure to the right is Guido Guinizelli and the other one to the left is Arnaut Daniel, the greatest exponent of the Provençal poetic movement called trobar clus. Arnaut calls out in Provençal so as to implore Dante to remember him when Dante will be at the top of the ladder which leads to the Lord. This scene is incredibly intense because of the heat emanating from the purging flames and the sincere affection Dante has for these two poets who had profoundly influenced him in the formulation of his own poetics.
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| Introduction Dante lost in the dark wood (Inferno, I) Dante - follower of Christ made flesh (Inferno, I) The arrival of Caronte (Inferno, III) The Noble Castle of Limbo (Inferno, IV) Tremendous Minos (Inferno, V) The lustful Guido Guinizelli and Arnaut Daniel (Purgatorio, XXVI) Souls in the circle of the envious (Purgatorio, XIII) The sky of Mercury - the active spirits (Paradiso, V-VI) Invective of St. Benedict (Paradiso, XXII) index | ||
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