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pronunciation:
[folenggoh]
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| (1491–1544)
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| Poet, born in Mantua, Lombardy, N Italy. He became a Benedictine monk at an early age, left the order in 1524, but returned in 1530. His fame rests on the collection of poems Maccheronee, published under the name Merlin Cocai, from which the type of poetry called maccheronica originated. They comprise the comic poem Moscheide and the metrical comic romance Baldus. The latter charts the adventures of Baldo, a descendant of the famous hero Ronald, and includes both a realistic and warm description of peasant society and the fantastic style of chivalry poems. |
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