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GUIDI, CARLO ALESSANDRO (1650-1712)

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GUIDI, CARLO ALESSANDRO (1650-1712) , See also:Italian lyric poet, was See also:born at See also:Pavia in 1650. As See also:chief founder of the well-known See also:Roman See also:academy called " L'See also:Arcadia," he had a considerable See also:share in the reform of Italian See also:poetry, corrupted at that See also:time by the extravagance and See also:bad See also:taste of the poets See also:Marini and See also:Achillini and their school. The poet Guidi and the critic and jurisconsult See also:Gravina checked this evil by their See also:influence and example. The See also:genius of Guidi was lyric in the highest degree; his songs are written with singular force, and See also:charm the reader, in spite of touches of bombast. His most celebrated See also:song is that entitled Alla See also:Fortuna (To See also:Fortune), which certainly is one of the most beautiful pieces of poetry of the 17th See also:century. Guidi was See also:squint-eyed, humpbacked, and of a delicate constitution, but possessed undoubted See also:literary ability. His poems were printed at See also:Parma in 1671, and at See also:Rome in 1704. In 1681 he published at Parma his lyric tragedy Amalasunta in See also:Italy, and two See also:pastoral dramas See also:Daphne and See also:Endymion. The last had the See also:honour of being mentioned as a See also:model by the critic Gravina, in his See also:treatise on poetry. Less fortunate was Guidi's poetical version of the six homilies of See also:Pope See also:Clement XI., first as having been severely criticized by the satirist Settano, and next as having proved to be the indirect cause of the author 's See also:death. A splendid edition of this version had been printed in 1712, and, the pope -being then in See also:San Gandolfo, Guidi went there to See also:present him with a copy. On the way he found out a serious typographical See also:error, which he took so much to See also:heart that he was seized with an apoplectic See also:fit at See also:Frascati and died on the spot.

Guidi was honoured with the See also:

special See also:protection of Ranuccio II., See also:duke of Parma, and of See also:Queen See also:Christina of See also:Sweden.

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