Codice albumGBB-F-006951

Codice inventarioGBB-F-006951-0000

1630 ca, ITALY: The italian poet and writer Count ALESSANDRO TASSONI (Modena, 1565-1635), portrait engraved by Bartolomeo Bonvicini from 1738 for the frontespice of book VITA DI ALESSANDRO TASSONI by Lodovico Antonio Muratori like foreword to LA SECCHIA RAPITA (1744). Author of celebrated poem LA SECCHIA RAPITA (The Rape of the Pail), written by Tassoni between 1614 and 1615 and first published in Paris in 1622. It was not to be published in Italy until Tassoni modified it slightly to accommodate the censorship of the Catholic Church. Tassoni paid for the first Italian edition, bearing his own name, in 1624 (the poem had been previously circulated under the pseudonym of Aldrovinci Melisone). The final edition was published in 1630

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