Gaspare Murtola | |
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 Caravaggio's Medusa Murtola. The painting is named after the poet Gaspare Murtola who dedicated to it his celebrated madrigal Per lo scudo di Medusa (1603) | |
| Born | 1570 |
| Died | 1625 |
| Alma mater | University of Genoa |
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| Notable works | La Creazione del mondo |
Gaspare Murtola (Italian pronunciation: [ˈɡaspare ˈmurtola]; d. 1624[1] or 1625[2]) was an Italian poet and writer of madrigals. He is known for a bitter literary feud with Giambattista Marino, carried out "with sonnets, invectives, and pistol shots,"[3] and for references he makes in his poetry to art works by Caravaggio. His main work is the sacred poem La Creazione del mondo ("The Creation of the World," 1608).[4]
- ^ Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A–J, edited by Gaetana Marrone (Taylor & Francis, 2007), vol. 1, p. 1160; Albert N. Mancini, entry on "Marino, Giambattista," in Cassell Dictionary of Italian Literature (Cassell, 1996), p. 364.
- ^ Fossi 2004, p. 530.
- ^ Mancini, Cassell Dictionary of Italian Literature, p. 364.
- ^ Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies, p. 1160.
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