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Guido Cavalcanti

Died in 1300

Guido Cavalcanti (died 1300) was born in Florence in the 1250s, into a wealthy Guelph family; Dante places his father among the heretics of Hell. In 1267, to seal a reconciliation between the parties, he married Beatrice degli Uberti, daughter of the Ghibelline leader Farinata. Involved in the struggles of the Florentine factions, he was exiled to Sarzana in June 1300 by the priors of the city, of whom Dante was one. He fell ill there and died in August 1300, as he was returning.

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