Gian Giorgio Trissino: Quick Facts

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Born	July 8, 1478 • Vicenza • Italy
Died	December 8, 1550 (aged 72) • Rome • Italy
Notable Works	“I simillimi” • “Sofonisba”
Subjects Of Study	comedy • dramatic literature

Pietro Aretino

Italian author

Luigi Pirandello

Italian author

Ariosto, woodcut after a drawing by Titian from the third edition of Orlando furioso, 1532.

Ludovico Ariosto

Italian author

Alessandro Manzoni

Italian author

Salvatore Quasimodo

Italian poet

Vittorio, Count Alfieri

Italian author

Giambattista Giraldi

Italian poet and dramatist

Anton Francesco Grazzini

Italian writer

William Shakespeare

English author

Pierre Corneille

French poet and dramatist

John Dryden

British author

Franz Grillparzer

Austrian dramatist

Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Austrian author

Francisco de Sá de Miranda

Portuguese author

Suckling, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Sir John Suckling

English poet and dramatist

Andreas Gryphius

German author

Jean de La Taille

French author

Gnaeus Naevius

Roman writer

Népomucène Lemercier

French author

James Shirley

English playwright

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

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