Gasparo, Count Gozzi

Gasparo, Count Gozzi (born Dec. 4, 1713, Venice [Italy]—died Dec. 27, 1786, Padua, Venetia) was an Italian poet, prose writer, journalist, and critic. He is remembered for a satire that revived interest in Dante and for his two periodicals, which brought the journalistic style of the 18th-century English essayists Joseph Addison and Richard Steele to Italy. An early member, with his dramatist brother Carlo Gozzi, of the purist Granelleschi Academy, Gasparo Gozzi became known for...