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Giovanni Botero (c. 1544 – 23 June 1617) was an Italian thinker, priest, poet, and diplomat, author of Della Ragion di Stato (The Reason of State), [1] in ten chapters, printed in Venice in 1589, and of Universal Relations, (Rome, 1591), addressing the world geography and ethnography. [2]
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).
This is a list of notable Italian writers, including novelists, essayists, poets, and other people whose primary artistic output was literature. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:16th-century Italian male writers and Category:16th-century Italian women writers The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
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 ...
The Italian comedy of the 16th century was almost entirely modelled on Latin comedy. They were almost always alike in the plot. Thus the Lucidi of Agnolo Firenzuola, and the Vecchio amoroso of Donato Giannotti were modelled on comedies by Plautus, as were the Sporta by Giambattista Gelli, the Marito by Lodovico Dolce, and others. [116]
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