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Portrait of Torquato Tasso, 1590s. Torquato Tasso (/ ˈ t æ s oʊ / TASS-oh, also US: / ˈ t ɑː s oʊ / TAH-soh, Italian: [torˈkwaːto ˈtasso]; 11 March 1544 – 25 April 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his 1591 poem Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered), in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at the end ...
16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st; Pages in category "16th-century Italian poets" The following 60 pages are in this category, out of 60 total. ...
Ludovico Ariosto (UK: / æ r i ˈ ɒ s t oʊ /, US: / ɑː r i ˈ-/; [1] [2] Italian: [ludoˈviːko aˈrjɔsto,-ariˈɔsto]; 8 September 1474 – 6 July 1533) was an Italian poet.He is best known as the author of the romance epic Orlando Furioso (1516).
Canaäd, an epic poem reconstructing Canaanite mythology, set during the Late Bronze Age. Epic of Bamana Segu, oral epic of the Bambara people, composed in the 19th century and recorded in the 20th century; Epic of Darkness, tales and legends of primeval China; Epic of Jangar, poem of the Oirat people
Bernesque poetry is the clearest reflection of that religious and moral scepticism that was a characteristic of Italian social life in the 16th century, and that showed itself in most of the works of that period—a scepticism [117] that stopped the religious Reformation in Italy, and which in its turn was an effect of historical conditions.
Veronica Franco (c. 1546–1591) was an Italian poet and courtesan in 16th-century Venice. She is known for her notable clientele, feminist advocacy, literary contributions, and philanthropy. Her humanist education and cultural contributions influenced the roles of Courtesans in the late Venetian Renaissance.
16th-century portrait of Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio ( UK : / b ə ˈ k æ tʃ i oʊ / bə- KATCH -ee-oh , US : / b oʊ ˈ k ɑː tʃ ( i ) oʊ , b ə ˈ -/ boh- KAH -ch(ee)oh, bə- ; Italian: [dʒoˈvanni bokˈkattʃo] ; 16 June 1313 [ 1 ] – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch , and an important ...
He was born in 1458 at Naples of a noble family of the Lomellina, that claimed to derive its name from a seat in Lombard territory, at San Nazaro near Pavia.His father died ca 1462, during the boyhood of Jacopo, who was brought up at Nocera Inferiore and at San Cipriano Piacentino (hosted at the home of Family Sabato, located in Via Santilli) whose rural atmosphere colored his poetry.