Sordello

Sordello

Sordello da Goito or Sordel de Goit (sometimes "Sordell") was a 13th-century Lombard troubadour, born in the municipality of Goito in the province of Mantua. He is perhaps best remembered for the praise heaped on him by other poets: he is praised by Dante Alighieri in the "De vulgari eloquentia", and in the "Purgatorio" of "The Divine Comedy" is made the type of patriotic pride. He is the hero of a well-known poem by Robert Browning. He is also praised for his passion in Oscar Wilde’s poem " [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Amor_Intellectualis "Amor Intellectualis"] ".

The real Sordello, so far as we have authentic facts about his life, hardly seems to justify these idealizations, though he was the most famous of the Italian troubadours. About 1220 he was in a tavern brawl in Florence; and in 1226, while at the court of Richard of Bonifazio in Verona, he abducted his master’s wife, Cunizza, at the instigation of her brother, Ezzelino da Romano. The scandal resulted in his flight (1229) to Provence, where he seems to have remained for some time. He entered the service of Charles of Anjou, and probably accompanied him (1265) on his Naples expedition; in 1266 he was a prisoner in Naples. The last documentary mention of him is in 1269, and he is supposed to have died in Provence. His appearance in Purgatory among the spirits of those who, though redeemed, were prevented from making a final confession and reconciliation by sudden death, suggests that he was murdered, although this may be Dante’s own conjecture.

His didactic poem, "L’ensenhamen d’onor", and his love songs and satirical pieces have little in common with Dante’s presentation, but the invective against negligent princes which Dante puts into his mouth in the 7th canto of the "Purgatorio" is more adequately paralleled in his "sirventes-planh" (1237) on the death of his patron Blacatz, where he invites the princes of Christendom to feed on the heart of the hero.

Sordello is briefly referred to in Samuel Beckett’s 1951 novels "Molloy" and "Malone Dies". Ezra Pound also references him in the Cantos. Numerous references occur in Roberto Bolano’s novella "By Night in Chile".

References

*For Sordello’s life and works, the edition of Cesare de Lollis (Halle, 1896)
*For Browning’s poem see Stopford Brooke’s "Browning" (1902).

*1911


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