Bruto Secondo

The Second Brutus

Author

Vittorio Alfieri

Language

Italian

Year

1792

Country

Italy

Genre

Drama / Theatre / Plays

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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.