Artist Info: 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 the well-known poem Sordello by Robert Browning. He is also praised for his passion in Oscar Wilde's poem "Amor Intellectualis". [read more...]