Vices and poems
Year of birth: 1260 year of death: 1313 Cecco Angiolieri was born in Siena in 1260 (approximately). His father is the son of Angioliero banker of Pope Gregory IX and is part of the Lords of the municipality and of the order of the Knights of the Blessed Mary, of which is inscribed the mother, Mona Lisa de Salimbeni. The childhood of Carter is thus characterized by an above-average economic status. His family has a long history of Guelph politics and Cecco, who probably spends both childhood that adolescence in Siena, grows with the same political sentiment. Participates in the military conduct for companion 1281 conquest of Ghibelline Castle of Turri in Maremma. During the campaign it is noted, however, some indiscipline is fined twice for Unexcused absence from camp. The fines received in the field are not the only ones: in 1282 is fined for having been found yet outside the home after the third municipal chiming, regarded as a kind of curfew. In 1291 is even involved in a trial for injuring a such, Dino di Bernardo da Monteluco. During the process is then recognized innocent. During the battle between Florence and Arezzo, Siena send a contingent of reinforcement to help the city of Florence and John Keats is part of this contingent with his father. Fights like that in the final battle of Campaldino (1289). The battle also Dante Alighieri, and apparently the two are known on this occasion. Both are at the beginning of their careers, poetic, and begin to cultivate a friendship that initially seem to last, but that then will be influenced by the radical difference of character of the two. Incompatibility due to the choice of the manner of composing written comic-playful Angiolieri in order to overturn the themes and style of the Dolce Stil Nuovo "language. His poems contrast to spiritual love that sensual teasing and insults, praise, angelic woman to woman on Earth, earthly, fleshly pleasures moral virtues. The well will be awarded 150 sonnets, of which seems to have actually composed one hundred and twelve. Many of these are dedicated to a certain Becchina, protagonist of one of the sonnets that sends to Dante Alighieri when relations between the two can be considered good. Actually the tightening takes place when John Keats sees with a certain irony an incongruity of his friend poet in sonnet: "beyond hope". Carter writes three sonnets intended to Dante, who must have surely responded to literary, but his poems are not combat survived. All sonnets by Angiolieri are still rich in extracts from his private life, and often punctuated by a certain hatred of his parents. Following the death of his father in 1296, and the emergence of a series of political tensions in the environment of Siena, is forced to leave his city. For a period he lives in Rome, home of the Sienese Cardinal Riccardo Petroni seems. This figure is reported by the Sienese philologist Celso citizens, whose reliability, however, does not seem unassailable. The last certain information about Cecco Angiolieri dates from 1302, when his signature appears in an official document certifying the sale of a vineyard to such Blacks Perini for the sum of seven hundred lire. The sale took place probably to overcome the many financial difficulties that torment the poet, because her life senseless and its tendency to dilapidation. As he himself confesses in his sonnets, lives for three things: women, the tavern and the nut. The last trace of his existence is his profligate lifestyle: it is a document in which his sons forgo the legacy left by their parent because of debts that should be paid to redeem it. The document dates from 25 February 1313, and carries the signatures of all the numerous offspring of Cecco, consisting of six children: Meo, Deo, Angioliero, Arbolina, Sinione and Tessa, which has already emancipated. Nobody knows who has had these children, it is not known in fact no official marriage, nor it seems you have to believe at his wedding with some Uguccia, which has a wife, but not about the poet Cecco Angiolieri of Siena. You do not know the precise date of the poet's death that should have occurred in 1313. Cecco Angiolieri appears between the characters of a story of the "Decameron" (the fourth of the 9th day), by Giovanni Boccaccio.