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Count Vittorio Alfieri (/ ˌ æ l f i ˈ ɛər i /, also US: / ɑː l ˈ f j ɛr i /, Italian: [vitˈtɔːrjo alˈfjɛːri]; 16 January 1749 – 8 October 1803) was an Italian dramatist and poet, considered the "founder of Italian tragedy."
- dramatist, poet
- church of Santa Croce, Florence
Vittorio, Count Alfieri (born January 16, 1749, Asti, Piedmont—died October 8, 1803, Florence) was an Italian tragic poet whose predominant theme was the overthrow of tyranny. In his tragedies, he hoped to provide Italy with dramas comparable to those of other European nations.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Vittorio Amedeo Alfieri ( Asti, 16 gennaio 1749 – Firenze, 8 ottobre 1803) è stato un drammaturgo, poeta e scrittore italiano . «Nella città di Asti, in Piemonte, il 17 gennaio [7] dell'anno 1749, io nacqui di nobili, agiati ed onesti parenti». [8]
- Antonio Amedeo Alfieri
- Luigi Leonardo Colli
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Count Alfieri died when Vittorio was less than one year old. His mother married a third husband, the cavalier Giacinto Alfieri de Magliano. Vittorio was privately tutored under Don Ivaldi, a priest whose education was poor enough to move him in 1758 to the Military Academy of Turin.
The Italian playwright and poet Conte Vittorio Alfieri (1749-1803) was a fervent adversary of political tyranny. His vigorous defense of freedom, the keystone of all his works, made him the idol of Italian patriots during the Risorgimento. Born into a noble Piedmontese family on Jan. 16, 1749, Vittorio Alfieri received his early education at ...
Conte Vittorio Alfieri, 1749 - 1803, Italian poet. A military career took the young Alfieri through Europe, where he became fascinated with the political and literary climate of late eighteenth-century England and devoured the works of such French intellectuals as Voltaire, Rousseau, and Montesquieu. From them, he later wrote, he inherited his ...
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Vittorio Alfieri, Conte (vēt-tō´rēō kōn´tā älfyĕ´rē), 1749–1803, Italian tragic poet. A Piedmontese, born to wealth and social position, he spent his youth in dissipation and adventure. From 1767 to 1772 he traveled over much of Europe but returned to Italy fired by a sense of the greatness of ...
