biography
| name: |
Croce, Giulio Cesare
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pronunciation:
[krohchay]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1550–1609)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in San Giovanni in Persiceto, Emilia-Romagna, N Italy. A blacksmith and story-teller, he wrote about 400 works in Italian and in the Bologna dialect. The best-known are Le sottilissime astuzie di Bertoldo (1606) and Le piacevoli e ridicole simplicità di Bertoldino (1608), which are exuberant readaptations of mediaeval legends. |
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