Bonagiunta Orbicciani

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Bonagiunta Orbicciani (* 1220 in Lucca ; † 1290 ibid) was one of the greatest Italian poets of the 13th century who came from Tuscany . In his hometown, Orbicciani was a notary by profession and is considered to be perhaps the most loyal investigator into the styles of the Sicilians in Tuscany . His style seems to be far from the so-called trobar clus , namely the difficult and deliberately dull style of Guittone , with which he shared ethical issues, preferring a clear style that emerged from the trobar leu (hell).

In one of his sonnets ( Voi, ch'avete mutata la maniera ) he refers to Guinizelli by presenting his position against the rising dolce stil novo and reproaches the intellectualism, which he perceives as an approach to the trobar clus .

38 works from his literature have been preserved (18 specific sonnets and one attributable to him, a further 11 chants, 2 discordi and 5 ballads), which often pass on the themes of the Sicilian school of poets, folk, lovable and judgmental.

Orbicciani, tied to a courtly upbringing and a concept of love as refined comfort, simply did not see that the promoters of the Sweet New Style viewed philosophy and science as the tools of a psychological deepening of the concept of love and that their poetry as a whole was called “piana e dolce “ (clear and sweet) sounded.

Dante Alighieri quotes him in the Purgatorio of his Divine Comedy and describes him as the champion of a well-worn poetry.