Sordello, born in Goito, in the province of Mantua, is a character much loved by authors and poets of all ages: Dante Alighieri, who mentions him in the Divine Comedy and in the treatise 'De vulgari eloquentia', and then Oscar Wilde, Robert Browning, Samuel Becket and Ezra Pound.
A court minstrel, he devoted himself to Provençal-inspired poetry and became one of the most important Italian troubadours for his adventure stories, whether written or experienced firsthand.
The scarcity of documentation prevents us from tracing this character's historical evolution with certainty. It is said that Sordello had a very adventurous life: he was described as a great lover, false and deceitful towards the women and gentlemen with whom he lived. Forty-two poems on love and politics remain, and the poem Ensenhamen d'onor (Precepts of Honor). His most famous text is the Lamentation for Ser Blacatz, a satirical funeral eulogy written for a Provençal lord who was a protector of troubadours.