biography
| name: |
Martello, Pier Iacopo
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pronunciation:
[mah(r)telloh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1665–1727)
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| biography:
| Scholar and writer, born in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, N Italy. He belonged to the Arcadia literary movement and was noted for his tragedies, which appeared in Teatro (1709, 1715), written in a verse named martelliano after him, and plays, including Che bei pazzi (1717). An enthusiastic polemicist, he wrote Sermoni della poetica (1710) and Femia sentenziato, against Scipione Maffei; he defended his verse in Del verso tragico (1709). |
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