- Francesco Bracciolini
Francesco Bracciolini (
November 26 ,1566 -August 31 ,1645 ) was an Italianpoet .He was born of a noble family in
Pistoia in 1566. On his removing toFlorence he was admitted into the academy there, and devoted himself toliterature . AtRome he entered the service of CardinalMaffeo Barberini , with whom he afterwards went toFrance . After the death ofClement VIII he returned to his own country; and when his patron Barberini was elected pope, under the name ofUrban VIII , Bracciolini repaired to Rome and was made secretary to the pope's brother, Cardinal Antonio. He had also the honor conferred on him of taking a surname from the arms of the Barberini family, which werebee s; whence he was afterwards known by the name of Bracciolini dell Api. During Urban's pontificate the poet lived at Rome in considerable reputation, though at the same time he was censored for his sordid avarice.On the death of the
pontiff he returned to Pistoia, where he died in 1645. There is scarcely any species of poetry, epic, dramatic, pastoral, lyric or burlesque, which Bracciolini did not attempt; but he is principally noted for his mock-heroic poem "Lo Scherno degli Dei" published in 1618, similar but confessedly inferior to the contemporary work ofAlessandro Tassoni , "Secchia Rapita". Of his serious heroic poems the most celebrated is "La Croce Racquistata".References
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