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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." He wrote nineteen tragedies, sonnets, satires, and a notable autobiography.
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.
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 [N 5] dell'anno 1749 , io nacqui di nobili, agiati ed onesti parenti». [3]
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His Vita di Vittorio Alfieri (1804; Memoirs, 1810), written in 1790 and subsequently repeatedly revised and enlarged, is a prototype of the Romantic autobiography, which aims to...
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.
