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Basile, Giovanni Battista

Argia Bertini ; Dinko Fabris

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2001

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Basile, Giovanni Battista
Autor: Argia Bertini ; Dinko Fabris
Assuntos: Baroque Music ; High Renaissance Music (1500-1600)
É parte de: New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2001
Descrição: [Giambattista] Member of Basile family (b Giugliano, nr Naples, Feb 25, 1566; dGiugliano, Feb 23, 1632). Italian poet,writer and librettist. He was educated in Naples but left at an early age, travelling around Italy until he arrived in Venice in 1604. He became a soldier and was deployed with the Venetian army to defend Crete, where he joined the literary Accademia degli Stravaganti, taking the name ‘Il Pigro’ (‘the lazy one’). In 1608 he abandoned his military career and returned to Naples, where he began work as a writer and published his first poetry in Neapolitan dialect. He became a member of the Accademia degli Oziosi in 1608 and of the Accademia degli Incauti in 1621. The support of his famous sister, Adriana Basile, no doubt helped his career: after she moved to the Gonzaga court, Mantua, in 1610, Giovanni Battista joined her for a year and was awarded the titles of ...
Editor: Oxford University Press
Idioma: Inglês

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