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 Scannabecchi family. At the age of two, his family was exiled and moved to

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, where Bernardo and his brother Guglielmo encountered the Scaligeri and possibly

Dante Dante Alighieri (; most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri; – September 14, 1321), widely known mononymously as Dante, was an Italian Italian poetry, poet, writer, and philosopher. His ''Divine Comedy'', originally called ...

- 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

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. On 26 August 1356 he was in Ravenna assisting with the writing of the will of his wife Sara da Camposampiero. An anonymous sonnet attributes the poem on Dante's sarcophagus to Canaccio which 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 s ...

's ''Life of Dante''.

References

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