Commentary Purg XXIV 19-20

Bonagiunta Orbicciani degli Overardi da Lucca (1220?-1297?), notary and writer of lyric poems, composed mainly in imitation of the Provençal poets.  He was involved in polemic against the poetry of Guido Guinizzelli and was attacked by Dante in his treatise on vernacular eloquence (Dve I.xiii.1) for writing in a dialectical rather than the lofty ('curial') vernacular.  Some three dozen of his poems survive and a group of these has been re-edited and re-presented by Gianfranco Contini (Cont.1960.1), vol. I, pp. 257-82.  See Giunta (Giun.1998.1) and Paolazzi (Paol.1998.1) for the poetic relationship between Bonagiunta and Guinizzelli and its significance for Dante.