dolce stil novo
Medieval love poetry
Dolce stil novo (Italian, "sweet new style") is a late medieval Italian literary movement emphasizing spiritual love and elegant vernacular poetry.
Dante and his circle developed this refined approach, treating the beloved as an agent of divine grace rather than mere romantic object.
The term now refers broadly to any elevated, idealized treatment of love in verse.
- canzoneItalian lyric poem
- BeatriceClassical feminine name
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
- sweetnessSugary taste quality
- AllegoryStory representing abstract ideas
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- love poetrylove poems, love poem, love poetry, love sonnets, love sonnet
- Italian LiteratureDante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Dante Alighieri
- DanteDivine Comedy, Inferno, Dante, Paradiso, Beatrice
- Italian RenaissanceAriosto, quattrocento, humanism, Petrarch, Machiavelli
- Italian poetryDante, Petrarch, sonnet, ottava rima, madrigal
- Medieval ItalianDante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Divine Comedy, Decameron