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Giovan Battista Pigna (April 8, 1529  November 4, 1575) was an Italian humanist, poet and historian from Ferrara. A reformer of the University of Ferrara, Pigna was secretary to Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara and court historian at Ferrara.[1]

Giovan Battista Pigna
BornGiovan Battista Nicolucci 
8 April 1529 
Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara
Died4 November 1575  (aged 46)
Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara
OccupationWriter

Pigna's I romanzi (1554) argued that chivalric romances like those of Ariosto were a modern form of poetry equal to those considered by Aristotle's Poetics. Torquato Tasso, who succeeded Pigna as court historian, attacked Pigna's defence of Ariostan poetry in his Discorsi dell'arte poetica.[1]


Works


Statuta urbis Ferrariae nuper reformata, 1567
Statuta urbis Ferrariae nuper reformata, 1567

References


  1. Giovan Battista Pigna, Pathways through literature: Torquato Tasso. Accessed 12 May 2013.

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