Origins Sicilian_School

palazzo dei normanni, 1 of places hosted frederick s magna curia

this features french poetry, influential in italy. distinguishes sicilian school troubadours, however, introduction of kinder, gentler type of woman found in french models; 1 nearer dante s madonnas , petrarch s laura, though less characterised psychologically. poems of sicilians hardly portray real women or situations (frederick s song cannot read autobiographical), style , language remarkable, since sicilians (as dante called them) created first italian literary standard enriching existing vernacular base, inspired popular love songs, new words of latin , provençal origin.