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Excerpt from Epochs of Italian Literature
Literature could no longer keep silent. At the court of Frederick II, ever rushing from one end of Italy to the other, ever crowded by noblemen and statesmen of different regions, some writers, encouraged by the emperor himself, attempted vernacular imitations of Provencal troubadours. The language used by these writers - men of good taste and much travelled - was free from the more pronounced dialectal forms and approximated unconsciously to the vernacular forms that appeared less remote from Latin. Both style and thought came from France. In the footsteps of these 'sicilian' poets (as they are wrongly called) followed several writers in central Italy who used what was practi cally the Tuscan vernacular they were often more sincere, more learned, and more gifted than their predecessors. Their art reached its highest development in the lyrics of Guido Guinizelli of Bologna and Guido Cavalcanti the Florentine. Italian poetical style was formed.
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