Because I do not hope to turn," a reference to this man's poem about his exile in Sarzana.
He's not Francois Villon, but Ezra Pound wrote a 3-act opera that set 11 poems of this author to music. Pound's Canto 73 opens with the image of this man riding on horseback after a return from exile just before relating this author's name to galloping. T.S. Eliot's "Ash Wednesday" opens with the line "Because I do not hope to turn," a reference to this man's poem about his exile in Sarzana. Near tombs at the port of St. John, his character argues that those who are not scientists or poet-philosophers are worse than dead once (*) Betto's brigade insults him for trying to disprove God in The Decameron. His most famous work, an Averroes-inspired poem that philosophically explicates love in eight chapters, translates as "A lady asks me." For 10 points, name this 13th-century poet of Ballata and Donna me prega, who, along with Guizinelli and Dante, was a leading writer of the dolce stil novo.
He's not Francois Villon, but Ezra Pound wrote a 3-act opera that set 11 poems of this author to music.
Guido Cavalcanti