biography
| name: |
Della Casa, Giovanni
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pronunciation:
[dela kahsa]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1503–56)
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| biography:
| Scholar, born in Mugello, Tuscany, Italy. He was apostolic delegate to Venice (1544–9) and then Paul IV's home secretary. Among his works are the Capitoli del forno (1544), and the poems Rime (1558) in the Petrarca style, with an added melancholic sophistication. His fame rests on the treatise Il Galateo (1551–5, published in 1558), named after cardinal Galeazzo Florimonte. Intended to instruct a youth how to behave in society, it reveals a detailed account of the Renaissance ideal in a flowing, immediate language. |
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