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La Catrina

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In Francesco Berni
His La Catrina (1567), a lively rustic farce, was also highly regarded, though his fame rests squarely on his burlesque poetry. Most of this work appears in one of two forms: the tailed sonnet, to which he frequently gave three-line extensions; or the capitolo, a lengthy…
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