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PULCI, LUIGI (1431-1487)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 640 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PULCI, See also:LUIGI (1431-1487) , See also:Italian poet, was See also:born at See also:Florence, of a well-connected See also:family. His See also:elder See also:brother Luca (d..1470) was also a poet, author of See also:Pistole, Driadeo d'amore, and Ciriffo Calvaneo. Luigi was patronized by Cosimo, See also:Piero, and Lorenzo de' See also:Medici, and was the author of various See also:works in See also:poetry and See also:prose. He is famous, however, as the first to bring See also:artistic See also:romance into Italian literature in his heroic poem Morgante See also:Maggiore (See also:Venice, 1481), an epic of a See also:giant converted to See also:Christianity, who accompanies Orlando (See also:Roland).

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