The General Biographical Dictionary, Vol 6 Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time

Alexander Chalmers

ISBN 10: 1333016654 / ISBN 13: 9781333016654

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• Title: The General Biographical Dictionary, Vol 6 Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1333016654
• ISBN 13: 9781333016654
• Binding: PAP
• Condition: New

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Excerpt from The General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 6: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; From the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time

Occasionally betraying the author's learning, but without afi'ectation. Hercules of Este was the first of the Italian sovereigns Who entertained the court with a magnificent theatre on which Greek or Latin comedies, translated into Italian, were performed. For this theatre Boiardo wrote his Timon, taken from a dialogue of Lucian, which may be accounted the first comedy written in Italian. The first edition of it, according to Tiraboschi, was that printed at Scandiano, 1500, 4to. The one, without a date, in 8vo, he thinks was the second. It was afterwards reprinted at Venice, 1504, 1515, and 1517, Svo. But Boiardo is principally known by his epic romance of Orlando In. Namorato, of which the celebrated poem of Ariosto is not only an imitation, but a continuation. Of this work, he did not live to complete the third book, nor is it probable that any part of it had the advantage of his last corrections, yet it is justly regarded as exhibiting, upon the whole, a warmth of imagination, and a vivacity of colouring, which rendered it highly interesting: nor is it, perhaps, without reason, that the simplicity of the original has occasioned it to be preferred to the same work, as altered or reformed by Francesco Berni (see berni). The Orlando Innamo rato was first printed at Scandiano, about the year 1495, and afterwards at Venice, 1500, which De Bure erro neously calls the first edition. From the third book where Boiardo's labours cease, it was continued by Niccolo Agos tini, and of this joint production numerous editions have been published.

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