Poesía completa

Guido Cavalcanti's poetry is one of the most intense and innovative in Italy and Europe at the end of the 13th century. It will determine not only the formation of the so-called Stylnovist lyric, made up of authors such as Dante Alighieri, Cino da Pistoia or Lapo Gianni, but also that of other future avant-gardes, such as the "modernism" of Ezra Pound and TS Eliot or the narratological reflections of Italo Calvino. . The essential components of this poetry are the refined, clear and sweet style, the usual restricted lexicon of the love compositions of the time and the dramatization of the alienated interiority of the lover due to the irruption of the image of the loved object. A short poetic work that, nevertheless, due to its strength and mystery, continues to exert great fascination