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Giambattista Marino (also Giovan Battista Marini) [2] (14 October 1569 – 26 March 1625) [3] was an Italian poet who was born in Naples. He is most famous for his epic L'Adone . The Cambridge History of Italian Literature thought him to be "one of the greatest Italian poets of all time".
Giambattista Marino was an Italian poet, founder of the school of Marinism (later Secentismo), which dominated 17th-century Italian poetry. Marino’s own work, praised throughout Europe, far surpassed that of his imitators, who carried his complicated word play and elaborate conceits and metaphors.
Giovan Battista Marino, anche Giambattista Marino e Giovanni Battista Marino, talora anche Marini (Napoli, 14 ottobre 1569 – Napoli, 25 marzo 1625) è stato un poeta e scrittore italiano. È considerato il fondatore della poesia barocca , nonché il suo massimo esponente italiano.
Born in Naples in 1569, Giambattista Marino was – and remains – one of the most enduring voices of the Italian Baroque. Following initial training in rhetoric and grammar with an important Neapolitan humanist, Marino was encouraged by his family to pursue law.
Learn about Giambattista Marino, a Baroque poet and art critic, and his literary museum, The Gallery. Explore the first English translation of his text and the artworks it describes, and join the events and activities inspired by his work.
8 Mei 2023 · Giambattista Marino. (1569—1625) Quick Reference. (1569–1625) Neapolitan poet, best known for his Adone (1623), a long poem on the love of Venus and Adonis. The term marinismo (or sometimes secentismo) denotes the flamboyant style of ... From: Marino, Giambattista in The Oxford Companion to English Literature » Subjects: Literature.
It is a mythological poem which deals with the love of the goddess Venus for Prince Adonis. It was written in ottava rima and divided into twenty cantos. His opus of poetry includes sacred poems, epic fragments, burlesque compositions and satirical sonnets.
