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, the experiment being continued after Frederick's death by his son,
Manfred.