Franco Sacchetti
Franco Sacchetti (Italian pronunciation: [ˈfraŋko sakˈketti]; c. 1335 – c. 1400), was an Italian poet and novelist.
Biography
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Born in
After 1363 he settled in Florence. When a sentence of banishment was passed upon the rest of the house of Sacchetti by the Florentine authorities in 1380 (after the
In 1386 he was chosen ambassador to Genoa, but preferred to go as podestà to Bibbiena in Casentino. In 1392 he was podestà of San Miniato, and in 1396 he held a similar office at Faenza. In 1398 he received from his fellow-citizens the post of captain of their then province of Romagna, having his residence at Portico. The date of his death is unknown; most probably it occurred about 1400, though some writers place it as late as 1410.[1]
He wrote sonnets, canzoni, madrigals, and other poems; his best known works are however his Novelle (short stories). They were originally 300 in number, but today only 258 remain, the rest having been lost. They were not fitted into any framework like that of
Sacchetti died at San Miniato around 1400.
He has been defined as an author of Proto-Morlachism, a purported early stage of Morlachism.[3]
See also
References
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Attribution:
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Sacchetti, Franco". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 23 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 970. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
Sources
- Zaccarello, Michelangelo (2017). "SACCHETTI, Franco". ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
- Werner, A. The Humour of Italy. London: W. Scott Ltd.
- Picone, M. (2002). "Sacchetti, Franco". The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 7 June 2023.