biography
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Pallavicino, Ferrante
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pronunciation:
[palavicheenoh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1616–44)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna, N Italy. He moved to Germany and converted to Calvinism in 1640, but in 1643 was sentenced to death for apostasy and beheaded. He wrote Il corriere svaligiato, a savage libel against popes, Spaniards, and Jesuits, as well as novels inspired by the Bible (La Susanna, 1636), chivalry (Il prencipe ermafrodito, 1654) and myths (La rete di Vulcano, 1654) in an exuberant language typical of Baroque. |
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