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Born	c.1505 • Modena • Italy
Died	February 21, 1571 • Switzerland • (Died on this day)
Notable Works	“La poetica di Aristotele vulgarizzata”
Subjects Of Study	literary criticism • literature • poetry • unity • Aristotle

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Attilio Bertolucci

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Melchiorre Cesarotti

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Matthew Arnold

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Sir Philip Sidney

English author and statesman

William Congreve

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François Mauriac

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Martin Opitz

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Eric Bentley

American critic, translator, and stage director

Lucius Livius Andronicus

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Robert Fitzgerald

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