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Italian poet (1538-1612)

Also known as: Battista Guarini, Баттиста Гуарини, ジョヴァンニ・バッティスタ・グァリーニ, 巴蒂斯塔·乔万尼·瓜里尼, Гварини, Гварини Джамбаттиста

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Ornate, sensuous early Baroque lyric and pastoral verse continuing Guarini's madrigalian style. (AI reason)
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The Faithful Shepherdess adapts Guarini's pastoral tragicomedy form for the English stage. (AI reason)
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The Shepheardes Calender and Faerie Queene share Renaissance pastoral conventions and allegorical love themes. (AI reason)
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The Arcadia offers prose-and-verse pastoral romance with intricate love plots. (AI reason)
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Pietro Bembo1470–1547
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Petrarchan love lyric and courtly dialogues on love that shaped Guarini's poetic language. (AI reason)
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Il pastor fido
Il pastor fido e Il compendio della poesia tragicomica
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Three Renaissance pastorals
A critical edition of Sir Richard Fanshawe's 1647 translation of Giovanni Battista Guarini's Il pastor fido