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TASSONI, ALESSANDRO (1565-1635) , Italian poet, was a native of Modena
Emmanuel
work
burlesque epic entitled La Secchia Rapita, or " The Rape of the Bucket " (1622), the reference being to a raid of the Modenese upon the people
trophy . As in Butler's Hudibras, many of the personal and local allusions in this poem are now very obscure, and are apt to seem somewhat pointless to the general reader, but, in spite of Voltaire's contempt, it cannot be neglected by any systematic student of Italian literature (see Carducci 's edition, 1861). Other characteristic works of Tassoni are his Pensieri Diversi (1612), in which he treats philosophical, literary, historical and scientific questions with unusual freedom, and his Considerazioni sopra it Petrarcha (1609), a piece of criticism showing great
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