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The Sicilian School was a small community of Sicilian and mainland Italian poets gathered around Frederick II, most of them belonging to his imperial court in Palermo. Headed by Giacomo da Lentini, they produced more than 300 poems of courtly love between 1230 and 1266, the experiment being continued after Frederick's death by his son, Manfred.
Cielo d'Alcamo and fellow 13th century Sicilian poet Giacomo da Lentini are jointly credited as the inventors of the sonnet as a verse form. D'Alcamo is known exclusively from the poem "Rosa Fresca Aulentissima" ("Fresh and Very Perfumed Rose"), written in Messina -area Sicilian dialect with influences from mainland Italian dialects and which ...
Poets of Sicilian ethnicity writing in the Sicilian language, Italian language, Siculo-Arabic or Sicilian Arbëresh. See also: Category:Sicilian-language poets for poets writing in Sicilian Subcategories
Still, Piazza wondered if there were more elderly Sicilian women who could share specific memories, passed down from their own mothers and grandmothers, about this time period in the early 20th ...
Nina Siciliana (La) Nina Siciliana was the composer of one Italian sonnet, and a candidate to be the first Italian woman poet.She only came to light in 1780, along with 74 other poets, in the Étrennes du Parnasse (or Choix de Poësies). [1]
Maya Angelou's "Still I Rise" poem remains an anthem for the oppressed's struggle against the powerful, especially Black women. Themes of dignity and strength are inspiring.
CIL 4.5296 (or CLE 950) [a] is a poem found graffitied on the wall of a hallway in Pompeii.Discovered in 1888, it is one of the longest and most elaborate surviving graffiti texts from the town, and may be the only known love poem from one woman to another from the Latin world.
"Of Ane Blak-Moir" is a short poem in Scots by William Dunbar (born 1459 or 1460). It takes the form of a hymn in praise of a beautiful lady, but is a parody of the form. The lady addressed is apparently an African woman playing a role in a tournament or chivalric pageant. [ 1 ]