Su Dante e Guittone, e il nuovo spazio della poesia

Guittone's break with the previous lyric tradition, both with the originality of his early poetry and with the conversion of his religious and moralising production, opened up the space in which Dante was able to develop his own revolution, from the experience of the Vita nova to that of the cantor rectitudinis, so much so as to lead one to wonder again whether Guittone is not the first of the two Guidi of Purg. XI 97.