biography
| name: |
Trissino, Gian Giorgio
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pronunciation:
[treesinoh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1478–1550)
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| biography:
| Scholar and poet, born in Vicenza, Veneto, NE Italy. Forced into exile, he became a papal diplomat and a classical scholar, writing a tragedy, Sofonisba (1514–15) in strict accordance with Aristotle's rules. In the dialogue Il castellano (1529), he supported the idea of an Italian language, created by writers from different regions. He also wrote the Epistola delle lettere nuovamente aggiunte nella lingua italiana (1524) on language. |
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