Definitions

1. noun

A person, especially a poet, who is considered to be out of touch with reality or to have a distorted view of the world.

“The critic dismissed the poet’s work as the ramblings of a modern-day sordello, lost in his own fantasy world.”

2. proper noun

Sordello, a character in Giovanni Boccaccio’s poem ‘The Teseide’, a medieval Italian romance.

“In Boccaccio’s poem, Sordello is portrayed as a complex and conflicted character, torn between loyalty and ambition.”