biography
| name: |
Gravina, Gian Vincenzo
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pronunciation:
[graveena]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1664–1718)
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| biography:
| Scholar, born in Roggiano, Basilicata, S Italy. A law lecturer at Rome University, he was a classicist and a founder of the Arcadia (1690). His controversy with fellow Arcadian Giovan Mario Crescimbeni caused him to leave in 1711 to found his own academy. He wrote five classic-style tragedies and a number of essays, among them Ragion poetica (1708) and Della divisione dell'Arcadia (1712). |
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