biography
pronunciation:
[grohsee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1790–1853)
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| biography:
| Poet and writer, born in Bellano, Lombardy, N Italy. A friend of Manzoni and Porta, he was a strong supporter of Romanticism and explored its main themes in his work. He wrote the satirical anti-Austrian poem La Prineide (1815) and some short stories in verse set in the Middle Ages, Ildegonda (1820). His best-known work is the poem I lombardi alla prima crociata (1826), from which Verdi wrote an opera, and the historical novel Marco Visconti (1834). |
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