Luigi Tansillo was an Italian

Italy

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 poet of the Petrarchian and Marinist schools. Born in Venosa

Venosa

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, he entered the service of Pedro Álvarez de Toledo

Pedro Álvarez de Toledo

Don Pedro Álvarez de Toledo y Zúñiga, jure uxoris Marquis of Villafranca del Bierzo was the first effective Spanish viceroy of Naples, 1532 - 1552, responsible for considerable social, economic and urban change in the city and southern Italian kingdom, in general.-Early life:He was born in 1484...

 in 1536 and in 1540 entered the Accademia degli Umidi ("Academy of the Humid"), afterwards called della Fiorentina.

He was associated with the Court of Naples

Kingdom of Naples

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 and served as Captain of Justice at Gaeta

Gaeta

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His work Il vendemmiatore, written in his youth, was considered licentious enough to be placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum

Index Librorum Prohibitorum

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 by Pope Paul IV

Pope Paul IV

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His work Il podere, concerned with agronomy

Agronomy

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, was inspired by Columella

Columella

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 with its precise observations on the choice of a good agricultural estate.

He died at Teano

Teano

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Jacquet de Berchem

Jacquet de Berchem

Jacquet de Berchem was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance, active in Italy. He was famous in mid-16th-century Italy for his madrigals, approximately 200 of which were printed in Venice, some in multiple printings due to their considerable popularity...

 set some of his texts, as did Giovanni Tommaso Benedictis da Pascarola

Giovanni Tommaso Benedictis da Pascarola

Giovanni Tommaso Benedictis da Pascarola, also Giovanni Benedetti da Pascarola was an Italian composer of the Renaissance....

. François de Malherbe’s

François de Malherbe

François de Malherbe was a French poet, critic, and translator.-Life:Born in Le-Locheur , his family was of some position, though it seems not to have been able to establish to the satisfaction of heralds the claims which it made to nobility older than the 16th century.He was the eldest son of...

 Larmes de Saint Pierre, imitated from Tansillo, appeared in 1587, and in 1594 Orlando di Lasso also set Le lagrime di San Pietro

Lagrime di San Pietro

The Lagrime di San Pietro is a cycle of 20 madrigals and a concluding motet by the late Renaissance composer Orlande de Lassus. It is structured as 3 sequences of 7 compositions in each sequence, and is for seven voices. The Lagrime di San Pietro was his last composition, written in 1594, and...

. William Roscoe’s

William Roscoe

William Roscoe , was an English historian and miscellaneous writer.-Life:He was born in Liverpool, where his father, a market gardener, kept a public house called the Bowling Green at Mount Pleasant. Roscoe left school at the age of twelve, having learned all that his schoolmaster could teach...

 translation of Tansillo's Nurse appeared in 1798, and went through several editions.

Works

• I due pellegrini (1530)
• Il vendemmiatore (1532–1534)
• Stanze a Bernardino Martirano (1540)
• Clorida (1547)
• La Balia (1552)
• Il podere (1560)
• Le lagrime di San Pietro (1585)
• Liriche
• Il canzoniere

Sources

• Francesco Ambrosoli, Manuale della Letteratura Italiana , seconda edizione ricorretta e accresciuta dall'autore (Vol.II, Firenze, G.Barbèra Editore), 1863.