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1565–1635 · Italian poet
Also known as: Алессандро Тассони, Тассони, Алессандро
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Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux1636–1711ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetLe Lutrin is a mock-heroic poem about a petty quarrel, explicitly inspired by Tassoni's comic epic form. (AI reason)
Francesco Bracciolini1566–1645ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetLo scherno degli dei is a contemporary Italian burlesque epic parodying classical mythology in the same mock-heroic vein. (AI reason)
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Francesco Berni1497–1535ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetBerni's burlesque and satirical verse established the playful, irreverent Italian comic style Tassoni draws on. (AI reason)
Lorenzo Lippi1606–1665ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetIl Malmantile racquistato is a seventeenth-century Italian mock-epic full of comic Tuscan idiom. (AI reason)
Torquato Tasso1544–1595ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetGerusalemme liberata is the serious heroic epic whose conventions Tassoni both critiqued and parodied. (AI reason)
Giambattista Marino1569–1625ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetAdone represents the ornate Baroque Italian narrative poetry of the same era and literary debates. (AI reason)
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- Postille al primo Vocabolario della Crusca
- Annotazioni sopra il Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca
- Lettere
- La secchia rapita
- La secchia rapita e scritti poetici