biography
| name: |
Tassoni, Alessandro
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pronunciation:
[tasohnee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1565–1635)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Modena, Emilia-Romagna, N Italy. He spent some time at the Savoy court, than at Modena. A highly anticonformist mind, he argued in favour of literature's renewal in Considerazioni sopra le rime del Petrarca (1609), and attacked Spanish domination in Filippiche (1615). His most successful work remains La secchia rapita, a mock-heroic poem in which the abduction of a bucket and the ensuing war is used to satirize contemporary events. |
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