Giorgio Baffo was a Venetian poet. Born in a noble family in decadence, almost nothing is know about his education. There are documents of a very short political career which he left for working at the venetian courthouse till his death.
He soon get in touch with the Illuminist philosophy and start writing poems inspired by french libertines. In october 1737 Giorgio Baffo married the harpsichord player Cecilia Sagredo, seventeen years younger than him.
He became dissociated by the aristocratic venetian scene for his decayed family, for his epicurean life and for his erotic, irriverent and obscene poems in which he attacked the Church, aristocracy, the corruption and the cultural scene of his era. He received numerous publishing offers from EGiorgio Baffo was a Venetian poet. Born in a noble family in decadence, almost nothing is know about his education. There are documents of a very short political career which he left for working at the venetian courthouse till his death.
He soon get in touch with the Illuminist philosophy and start writing poems inspired by french libertines. In october 1737 Giorgio Baffo married the harpsichord player Cecilia Sagredo, seventeen years younger than him.
He became dissociated by the aristocratic venetian scene for his decayed family, for his epicurean life and for his erotic, irriverent and obscene poems in which he attacked the Church, aristocracy, the corruption and the cultural scene of his era. He received numerous publishing offers from England but he always refused to publish his poems in his lifetime.
He wrote more than 1200 poems in his lifetime, over 700 of them are included in the definitive anthology of the poetical works, entitled simply Poesie and published in London in 1771. ...more
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