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Luigi Pulci


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in Florence, Italy
August 06, 1432

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Luigi Pulci, (born August 15, 1432, Florence [Italy]—died November? 1484, Padua, Republic of Venice), Italian poet whose name is chiefly associated with one of the outstanding epics of the Renaissance, Morgante, in which French chivalric material is infused with a comic spirit born of the streets of Florence. The use of the ottava rima stanza for the poem helped establish this form as a vehicle for works of a mock-heroic, burlesque character.

For many years Pulci lived under the protection of the Medici family, especially Lorenzo the Magnificent, who first introduced him into the circle of poets and artists that was gathering around him and later, after assuming power, entrusted him with various embassies and diplomatic missions. Nevertheles
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Morgante e Lettere

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