TASSONI, ALESSANDRO

älĕs-sänˈdrō täs-sôˈnē, 1565–1635, Italian poet. He spent much of his life in the service of Charles Emmanuel I of Savoy and Francesco I of Modena. His sharp letter (1602) of defense against accusations by the Italian Inquisition revealed him as a polemist of high order, as did his Manifesto (written 1627, pub. 1856), a bizarre and violent attack on the House of Savoy. Tassoni is best known for the mock-heroic poem Secchia rapita [the rape of the bucket] (1622), which ridicules the war between Bologna and Modena.

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Dictionary of Italian Literature
Book by Peter Bondanella, Julia Conaway Bondanella, Jody Robin Shiffman; Greenwood Press, 1996
Subjects: Italian Literature--Dictionaries
...attacking the Petrarchistic tradition, the critic Alessandro Tassoni* established in his Considerazioni sopra le Rime...CHIABRERA, Gabriello; MARINO, Giambattista; MELODRAMA; TASSONI, Alessandro. Bibliography: Benedetto Croce, Storia delleta...
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Seeds of Italian Nationalism, 1700-1815
Book by Emiliana Pasca Noether; Columbia University Press, 1951
Subjects: Italy--Politics And Government, Nationalism--Italy
...sonnets blazed up and in 1614 Alessandro Tassoni, a Modenese residing at Rome...Italy of Spanish hegemony. Tassonis eloquent appeals still retain...34 Alessandro Tassoni, "Filippiche," Prose politiche...
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A Short History of Italian Literature
Book by Robert A. Hall Jr.; Linguistica, 1951
Subjects: Fiction, Italian Literature--History And Criticism
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Italy 1530-1630
Book by Eric Cochrane, Julius Kirshner; Longman Press, 1988
Subjects: Italy--History--16th Century, Italy--History--17th Century
...another hundred years. Mannerism was assaulted by Caravaggios dramatic naturalism, the Petrarchan universe by Alessandro Tassonis and Giambattista Marinos iconoclasm and overweening conceits, and the Aristotelian-Ptolemaic system by Galileo...
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The Italian Tragedy in the Renaissance: Cultural Realities and Theatrical Innovations
Book by Salvatore Di Maria; Bucknell University Press, 2002
Subjects: Italian Drama (Tragedy)--History And Criticism, Italian Drama--To 1700--History And Criticism, Narration (Rhetoric)--History--16th Century, Narration (Rhetoric)--History--To 1500, Theater--Italy--History--16th Century, Theater--Italy--History--Medieval, 500-1500
...the course of the century, but we have no knowledge of its ever being performed before the eighteenth century. In 1524, Alessandro Pazzi de Medici was still referring to his tragedies as poems to be either lecte et recitate (read or recited), and hoped...
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journal articles on: Tassoni Alessandro  - 2 results

 
 
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Gendered Style in Italian Art Criticism from Michelangelo to Malvasia
Journal article by Philip Sohm; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 48, 1995
Subjects: Art criticism--Demographic aspects, Art, Renaissance--Literature, Feminist art criticism--Evaluation, Philosophy, Renaissance--Demographic aspects
...Saint Louis with Saints Sebastian and Alexander (Brescia, S. Alessandro). 96 Crusca, Vocabolario, 488, s.v. lisciare. E stropicciar...affettatione polivano, e lisciavano i loro ragionamenti." Tassoni, 362, "Riposta al Soccino," opposes the purity of sincere...
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Tolondron. Speeches to John Bowle about His Edition of Don Quixote, Together with Some Account of Spanish Literature
Journal article by Joseph Baretti; Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America, Vol. 23, 2003
Subjects: Bowle, John--Discursos, ensayos, conferencias, Crytica--Siglo XVIII, Editores, El ingenioso Hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha (Libro)--Crytica, interpretaciyn, etc., El ingenioso Hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha (Libro)--Redacciyn


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Reading Is Bad for Your Health
Magazine article by Roy Porter; History Today, Vol. 48, March 1998
Subjects: Authors, European--Quotations, Books and reading--Public opinion, Europeans--Conduct of life
...book-learning were dangerous in general, it was doubly so for the weaker vessel. The seventeenth-century poet, Alessandro Tassoni cautioned: There is no doubt, but that study is an occasion of exciting lust, and of giving rise to many...


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encyclopedia articles on: Tassoni Alessandro  - 2 results

 
 
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Tassoni, Alessandro
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TASSONI, ALESSANDRO ales-san dro tas-so ne, 1565 1635, Italian poet. He spent much of...1627, pub. 1856), a bizarre and violent attack on the House of Savoy. Tassoni is best known for the mock-heroic poem Secchia rapita the rape of...
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Italian Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Metastasio s heroic melodramas. The mock-heroic epic ( Tassoni ), the opera, and commedia dellarte were other genres cultivated...political works, such as Giuseppe Mazzini s, attest to this. Alessandro Manzoni s literary conversion included the rejection of...


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