Alfieri : Vittorio Cone (1749-1803), Italian tragic poet whose lyrics & dramas helped revive the national spirit of Italy & so earned the title of the Precursor of the Risorgimento – the liberation & unification of Italy in the 19th cent.
... century! Since then there have been Keats, Wordsworth, Shelley, Tennyson, but not a second Shakespeare or Milton. Dante and Boccaccio came successively: since then there have been Berni, Boiardo, Alfieri, Tasso, but not a second Dante or Boccaccio. Such men come rarely in the lapse of centuries. Greece alone has presented the world an unbroken succession of supreme geniuses. There is nothing to prevent ...
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