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
...vols. Rome: Loescher, 1895 ; Alessandro Tortoreto and Joseph Fucilla...Tassiani, 1966 . JOSEPH TUSIANI TASSONI, ALESSANDRO 1565-1635 , poet, literary...orphaned in early childhood, Tassoni grew up among hostile relatives...
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Encyclopedia of Literature
Book by Joseph T. Shipley; Philosophical Library, 1946
Subjects: Literature--Dictionaries, Indexes, Etc, Literature--History And Criticism
...Solerti, Vita di T . Torino , 1885. R. A. H. Jr. TASSONI, ALESSANDRO Italian, 1565-1635 , was one of the most original...Thoughts and his Considerations of Petrarchs Poetry, Tassoni attacked, often with more vigor than discrimination...
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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
...Straparola, Gian Francesco, 81 Striggio, Alessandro, 224 , 244 Strozzi, Alessandro, 173 Strozzi, Francesco di Soldo, 137...258 , 270 Tassone, Giovanni Domenico, 277 Tassoni, Alessandro, 4 , 269 -71, 275 Tedeschi, Tommaso Radini...
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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
...257 , 273 -80, 281 , 282 , 283 , 291 , 295 , 354 Tassoni, Alessandro: 272 , 291 -3, 296 , 317 , 329 Tebaldi, Antonio...179 , 183 , 191 , 199 , 279 , 311 , 319 Verri, Alessandro: 309 , 337 Verri, Carlo: 309 , 310 Verri, Pietro...
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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
...42 , 62 Scannabue, Aristarco, 123 Scarlatti, Alessandro, 17 Scenic fables by Gozzi, 147 -148 Scholasticism...Tanucci, Bernardo, 50 , 94 Tasso, Torquato, 97 Tassoni, Alessandro, 7 , 38 -40, 47 Tax farmers in Lombardy, 99...
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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
...D5; quoted in Jordan, 261) where "Alessandro Saluti" argues against allowing women...Sebastian and Alexander (Brescia, S. Alessandro). 96 Crusca, Vocabolario, 488, s...e lisciavano i loro ragionamenti." Tassoni, 362, "Riposta al Soccino," opposes...


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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
...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 obscene...


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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...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 classical...


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