:Alessandro Lionardi
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Alessandro Lionardi or Leonardi was an Italian poet from Padova, active in the mid-16th century. He was a doctor of law, and author of an important treatise on poetry and rhetoric, the Dialogi ({{langx|it|dialoghi}}, or "dialogues"). He is the author of the texts of Alfonso Ferrabosco's five-voice madrigals Vidi pianger madonna and Come dal ciel seren rugiada sole.
Published works
The published works of Lionardi include:
- Rime di M. Alessandro Lionardi gentil'huomo padouano: la uita il fine, e'l di loda la sera. Venetia: Al segno del Griffio [J. Gryphius], 1547
- Il secondo libro de le rime di messer Alessandro Lionardi nobile padovano. In Vinegia: appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari et fratelli, 1550
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=yhU8AAAAcAAJ Dialogi di Messer Alessandro Lionardi, della inventione poetica: et insieme di quanto alla istoria et all'arte oratoria s'appartiene, et del modo di finger la favola]. Venetia: Plinio Pietrasanta, 1554
- Oratio latina eccellentis domini Alexandri Leonardi in laudem Pij Quarti Summi Pontificis (in Latin) and Oratione volgare dell'eccellente M. Alessandro Lionardi. Al beatiss. e santissimo N. Sig. Papa Pio Quarto. Dedicata all'illustriss. e reverendiss. sig. card. Borromeo (in Italian). Patavii [Padova]: ad instantiam Antonii Alciati, 1565
References
External links
- [http://www.fondation-barbier-mueller.org/le-fonds/le-catalogue/fiches/article/lionardi-alessandro-rime-1547 Description and frontispiece of the Rime, 1547], Fondation Barbier-Mueller pour l'étude de la poésie italienne de la Renaissance (in French)
- [http://www.fondation-barbier-mueller.org/le-fonds/le-catalogue/fiches/article/lionardi-alessandro-il-secondo Description and frontispiece of the Secondo libro delle rime, 1550], Fondation Barbier-Mueller pour l'étude de la poésie italienne de la Renaissance (in French)
- [http://www.fondation-barbier-mueller.org/le-fonds/le-catalogue/fiches/article/lionardi-alessandro-dialoghi-dell Description and frontispiece of the Dialogi, 1554], Fondation Barbier-Mueller pour l'étude de la poésie italienne de la Renaissance (in French)
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