Bernardo Canaccio
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Bernardo Canaccio (1297 in Bologna – sometime after 1357 Sergio Marconi
'Bernardo Canaccio'
in ''Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani'', Roma, ''Istituto dell'Enciclopedia italiana'', 1974
) was an Italian poet.


Life

He was the son of Arpinello, known as Canaccio, who belonged to the
Ghibelline The Guelphs and Ghibellines (, , ; it, guelfi e ghibellini ) were factions supporting the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor, respectively, in the Italian city-states of Central Italy and Northern Italy. During the 12th and 13th centuries, rival ...
Scannabecchi family. Aged two, his family was exiled and moved to
Verona Verona ( , ; vec, Verona or ) is a city on the Adige River in Veneto, Italy, with 258,031 inhabitants. It is one of the seven provincial capitals of the region. It is the largest city municipality in the region and the second largest in nor ...
, where Bernardo and his brother Guglielmo met Scaligeri and probably
Dante Dante Alighieri (; – 14 September 1321), probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to as Dante (, ), was an Italian people, Italian Italian poetry, poet, writer and philosopher. His ''Divine Comedy'', origin ...
- the latter was in Verona from 1313 to 1319. From 1319 to 1320 Bernardo studied under Dante, who was then a guest of the Polenta family in
Ravenna Ravenna ( , , also ; rgn, Ravèna) is the capital city of the Province of Ravenna, in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy. It was the capital city of the Western Roman Empire from 408 until its collapse in 476. It then served as the ca ...
. On 26 August 1356 he was in Ravenna assisting in the writing of the will of his wife Sara da Camposampiero. An anonymous sonnet attributes the poem on Dante's sarcophagus to Canaccio – it is also mentioned in
Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio (, , ; 16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo, he became so well known as a writer that he was some ...
's ''Life of Dante''.


References

1297 births 14th-century Italian poets Dante Alighieri Writers from Verona {{authority control