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Berni, : Francesco (1497/98-1535), Italian poet & translator, important for his Tuscan version of Boiardo’s epic poem Orlando innamorato & for the distinctive style of his Italian burlesque, which was called after him bernesco, & imitated by many poets.

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... within the limits of a 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 ...

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