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DELLA CASA, GIOVANNI (1503–1556) , See also:Italian poet, was See also:born at Mugillo, in See also:Tuscany, in 1503. He studied at See also:Bologna, See also:Florence and See also:Rome, and by his learning attracted the patronage of See also:Alexander See also:Farnese, who, as See also:Pope See also:Paul III., made him See also:nuncio to Florence, where he received the See also:honour of being elected a member of the celebrated See also:academy, and then to See also:Naples, where his oratorical ability brought him considerable success. His See also:reward was the archbishopric of See also:Benevento, and it was believed that it was only his openly licentious poem, Capitoli del forno, and the fact that the See also:French See also:court seemed to See also:desire his See also:elevation, which prevented him from being raised to a still higher dignity. He died in 1556. Casa is chiefly remarkable as the See also:leader of a reaction in lyric See also:poetry against the universal See also:imitation of See also:Petrarch, and as the originator of a See also:style, which, if less soft and elegant, was more See also:nervous and majestic than that which it replaced. His See also:prose writings gained See also:great reputation in their own See also:day, and See also:long afterwards, but are disfigured by apparent straining after effect, and by frequent puerility and circumlocution. The See also:principal are—in Italian, the famous Il Galateo (1558), a See also:treatise of See also:manners, which has been translated into several See also:languages, and in Latin, De officiis, and See also:translations from See also:Thucydides, See also:Plato and See also:Aristotle.
A See also:complete edition of his See also:works was published at Florence in 1707, to which is prefixed a See also:life by Casotti. The best edition is that of See also:Venice, 1752.
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