Cavalcante de' Cavalcanti (flourished c. 1250; [[died c. 1280) was a Florentine philosopher and father of Guido Cavalcanti, a close friend of Dante Alighieri.
Cavalcanti was a wealthy member of the Guelph faction of Florentine aristocrats. In lines 52-72 of the tenth canto of Dante's Inferno, the poet converses with Cavalcanti about his son, Guido, and depicts the dead father as a doting parent.
References
- Hollander, Robert. Dante: The Inferno (New York: Doubleday, 2000) ISBN 0385496974 pp. 180–182.
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