Giovan Battista Pigna
Giovan Battista Pigna (April 8, 1529November 4, 1575) was an Italian humanist, poet and historian from Ferrara. A reformer of the University of Ferrara, Pigna was secretary to Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara and court historian at Ferrara. Pigna's I romanzi (1554) argued that chivalric romances like those of Ariosto were a modern form of poetry equal to those considered by Aristotle's Poetics.
Giovan Battista Pigna
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- Birthplace
- Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara
- Occupation
- writer
- Movement
- Renaissance humanism
- Full name
- Giovan Battista Nicolucci.
- Born
- 1529. · Ferrara.
- Died
- 1575. · Ferrara.
- Movements
- Renaissance.
- Education
- University of Ferrara.
- Teachers
- Giglio Gregorio Giraldi, Alessandro Guarini, François Portus and Vincenzo Maggi.
- Languages
- Italian.
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Giovan Battista Pigna (April 8, 1529November 4, 1575) was an Italian humanist, poet and historian from Ferrara. A reformer of the University of Ferrara, Pigna was secretary to Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara and court historian at Ferrara. Pigna's I romanzi (1554) argued that chivalric romances like those of Ariosto were a modern form of poetry equal to those considered by Aristotle's Poetics.
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Torquato Tasso, who succeeded Pigna as court historian, attacked Pigna's defence of Ariostan poetry in his Discorsi dell'arte poetica.
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• Birthplace — Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara • Place of death — Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara • Occupation — writer • Movement — Renaissance humanism
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• Illustration — Statuta urbis Ferrariae nuper reformata, 1567 • I romanzi di M. Giouan Battita Pigna... divisi in tre libri. Ne quali della poesia, & della vita dell'Ariosto con nuouo modo si tratta, 1554 • (ed.) Poetica Horatiana, 1561 * * • Historia de principi di Este, 1570
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1529
Giovan Battista Pigna born at Ferrara.
1575
Giovan Battista Pigna died at Ferrara.
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- Girolamo Tiraboschi, Biblioteca modenese, IV, Modena 1783, p. 131;
- Lorenzo Barotti, Memorie istoriche di letterati ferraresi, II, Ferrara 1793, p. 177;
- Venceslao Santi, La precedenza fra gli Estensi e i Medici e l'istoria de' Principi d'Este di G. Battista Pigna, in Atti della Deputazione ferrarese di storia patria, IX (1897), p. 35 ff.;
- Luigi Raffaele, I codici delle rime di Giambattista Pigna, ibid., XXI (1912), p. 35 ff.;
- Giulio Bertoni, Torquato Tasso e Lucrezia Bendidio, in Poeti e poesie del Medioevo e del Rinascimento, Modena 1922, p. 273 ff.
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Giovan Battista Pigna was recorded at birth as Giovan Battista Nicolucci. His recorded language was Italian. Other recorded relations include Antonio Musa Brassavola. Formation and teaching. Pigna studied at University of Ferrara. He trained under Giglio Gregorio Giraldi, Alessandro Guarini, François Portus and Vincenzo Maggi. Connected to 1 other published record in the VALÉORINE Encyclopedia.
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