Gasparo, Count Gozzi

Italian author
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Born:
Dec. 4, 1713, Venice [Italy]
Died:
Dec. 27, 1786, Padua, Venetia (aged 73)
Notable Works:
“Difesa di Dante”
Notable Family Members:
brother Carlo, Conte Gozzi

Gasparo, Count Gozzi (born Dec. 4, 1713, Venice [Italy]—died Dec. 27, 1786, Padua, Venetia) was an Italian poet, prose writer, journalist, and critic. He is remembered for a satire that revived interest in Dante and for his two periodicals, which brought the journalistic style of the 18th-century English essayists Joseph Addison and Richard Steele to Italy. An early member, with his dramatist brother Carlo Gozzi, of the purist Granelleschi Academy, Gasparo Gozzi became known for verse satires and Difesa di Dante (1758; “Defense of Dante”), an attack on the critic Saviero Bettinelli for preferring Virgil to Dante as a model ...(100 of 167 words)