biography
| name: |
Marino, Giovanbattista
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pronunciation:
[mareenoh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1569–1625)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Naples, Campania, SW Italy. He interrupted his law studies and followed his patron, Cardinal Aldobrandini, to Rome, then Ravenna and Turin (1608) at the Savoy court. In 1615 Marie de' Medici invited him to Paris, where he wrote Epitalami (1616), La sampogna (1620), and the famous Adone (1623), a poem on the story of Venus and Adonis which breaks with traditional models. He boldly supported the validity of success achieved by public acclaim in the present, as being preferable to that awarded by critics for posterity. He was embroiled in a number of controversies (notably with Gaspare Murtola) in defence of a new artistic taste which favoured fantasy against rationality. His poetry is characterized by formal innovation and lexical virtuosity and was hugely influential on Baroque poetry. |
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