Vittorio Alfieri

Vittorio Amedeo Alfieri

Country

Italy

Languages

Italian

Dates

1749 — 1803

enlightenment

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Count Vittorio Amedeo Alfieri was an Italian dramatist and poet, considered the "founder of Italian tragedy." He wrote nineteen tragedies, sonnets, satires, a notable autobiography, and translated Virgil and other works from Latin and Greek. Alfieri's work exerted a profound influence on British Romantic poetry.