Name: Sordello
Death Date: c.1270
Description: Troubadour from Goito, a small village near Mantua, who wrote poems in Provencal in praise of courtly ideals of the feudal ethos. One poem attacks rulers who did not embody these noble qualities. According to some early accounts he kidnapped Cunizza, wife of Count Ricciardo di San Bonifazio, and was possibly her lover.