burlesque: Quick Facts


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W.S. Gilbert
British playwright
Scarron, engraving by Georg Friedrich Schmidt after a drawing by Antoine Boizot
Paul Scarron
French author
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Anton Francesco Grazzini
Italian writer
Berni, detail of an oil painting, early 16th century; in a private collection
Francesco Berni
Italian poet and translator
Madame Vestris, detail of a watercolour by S. Lover, c. 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Madame Vestris
British actress and manager
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Alexander Scott
Scottish poet
Trumbull, John
John Trumbull
American poet
Portrait of Teofilo Folengo
Teofilo Folengo
Italian author