biography
| name: |
Casti, Giovanni Battista
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pronunciation:
[kastee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1724–1803)
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| biography:
| Scholar and writer, born in Acquapendente, Latium, Italy. An abbot, he exercized his versatile talents in Florence, Vienna, Paris, and St Petersburg, satirizing the latter in his Poema tartaro (1797). He wrote light melodramas, such as Novelle galanti (1778–1802), and mocked contemporary politics in the poem Gli animali parlanti (1794–1801). |
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