biography
pronunciation:
[alamahnee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1495–1556)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Florence, Tuscany, NC Italy. A republican, he organized a plot against Giulio de' Medici and then left for France (1530), where he enjoyed the patronage of Francis I and Henry II. He believed that vernacular literature could renew itself by imitating the classics. His works include lyric and epic poems, satires, epigrams, a tragedy Antigone (1533), a comedy Flora (1555), and the didactic poem in six books, Della coltivazione (1546). |
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