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ALAMANNI, or ALEMANNI, LUIGI (1495-1556)

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 468 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ALAMANNI, or ALEMANNI, LUIGI (1495-1556) , Italian states-man and poet, was born at Florence. His father was a devoted adherent of the Medici party, but Luigi, smarting under a sup-posed injustice, joined with others in an unsuccessful conspiracy against Giulio de' Medici, afterwards
Pope
  Clement VII. He was obliged in consequence to take
refuge
  in Venice, and, on the accession of Clement, to flee to France. When Florence shook off the papal yoke in 1527, Alamanni returned, and took a prominent part in the management of the affairs of the republic. On the restoration of the Medici in 1530 he had again to take
refuge
  in France, where he composed the greater part of his works. He was a favourite with Francis I., who sent him as
ambassador
  to Charles V. after the peace of Crepy in 1544. As an instance of his tact in this capacity, it is related that, when Charles interrupted a complimentary address by quoting from a satirical poem of Alamanni's the words
" 1' aquila grifagna,
Che per piu devorar, duoi rostri porta "
(Two crooked bills the ravenous eagle bears,
The better to devour),
the latter at once replied that he spoke them as a poet, who was permitted to use fictions, but that he spoke now as an
ambassador
 , who was obliged to tell the truth. The ready reply pleased Charles, who added some complimentary words. After the death of Francis, Alamanni enjoyed the confidence of his successor
Henry
  II., and in 1551 was sent by him as his ambassador to Genoa. He died at Amboise on the 18th of April 1556. He wrote a large number of poems, distinguished by the purity and excellence of their style. The best is a didactic poem, La Coltivazione (Paris, 1546), written in imitation of Virgil's Georgics. His Opere Toscane (Lyons, 1532) consists of satirical pieces written in blank verse. An unfinished poem, Avarchide, in imitation of the Iliad, was the
work
  of his old age and has little merit. It has been said by some that Alamanni was the first to use blank verse in Italian poetry, but the distinction belongs rather to his contemporary Giangiorgio Trissino. He also wrote a poetical romance, Girone it Cortese (Paris, 1548); a tragedy, Antigone; a comedy, Flora; and other poems. His works were published, with a biography by P. Raffaelli, as Versi e
prose
  di Luigi Alamanni (Florence, 1859).
See G. Nato, Luigi Alamanni e la coltivazione (Syracuse, 1897), and C. Corso, Un decennio di patriottismo di Luigi Alamanni (Palermo, 1898).


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