Deaths

• Pietro della Vigna
  Pietro della Vigna
  Pietro della Vigna, , was an Italian jurist and diplomat, who acted as chancellor and secretary to Emperor Frederick II. Accused of lèse majesté, he was imprisoned and blinded and committed suicide soon after...
  
   (born 1190), Italian jurist, diplomat, poet, and sonneteer of the Sicilian School
  Sicilian School
  The Sicilian School was a small community of Sicilian, and to a lesser extent, mainland Italian poets gathered around Frederick II, most of them belonging to his court, the Magna Curia. Headed by Giacomo da Lentini, they produced more than three-hundred poems of courtly love between 1230 and 1266,...
  
  , by suicide