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BRACCIOLINI, FRANCESCO (1566-1645)

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BRACCIOLINI, See also:FRANCESCO (1566-1645) , See also:Italian poet, was See also:born at See also:Pistoia, of a See also:noble See also:family, in 1566. On his removing to See also:Florence he was admitted into the See also:academy there, and devoted himself to literature. At See also:Rome he entered the service of See also:Cardinal Maffeo See also:Barberini, with whom he afterwards went to See also:France. After the See also:death of See also:Clement VIII. he returned to his own See also:country; and when his See also:patron Barberini was elected See also:pope, under the name of See also:Urban VIII., Bracciolini repaired to Rome, and was made secretary to the pope's See also:brother, Cardinal See also:Antonio. He had also the See also:honour conferred on him of taking a surname from the arms of the Barberini family, which were bees; whence he was after-wards known by the name of Bracciolini dell' Api. During Urban's pontificate the poet lived at Rome in considerile reputation, though at the same See also:time he was censured for his sordid avarice. On the death of the pontiff he returned to Pistoia, where he died in 1645. There is scarcely any See also:species of See also:poetry, epic, dramatic, See also:pastoral, lyric or See also:burlesque, which Bracciolini did not See also:attempt; but he is principally noted for his See also:mock-heroic poem Lo Schema degli Dei, published in 1618, similar but confessedly inferior to the contemporary See also:work of See also:Tassoni, Secchia Rapita. Of his serious heroic poems the most celebrated is La Croce Raequistata. For the Italian humanist See also:Poggio Bracciolini see Po0Gmo.

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