Sordello's Poem "Blacatz", and its echo in The Valley of Princes.
Ancient World
English - April 07, 2022 12:25 - 15 minutes - 13.8 MB - ★★★★ - 10 ratingsArts Education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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A look at the Sordello's most famous Provençal Poem "Blacatz" (c. 1240), and how Dante draws inspiration from this poem in his description of the Valley of Princes in Canto VII of the Purgatory.
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