Niccolò Franco
Niccolò Franco (born September 13, 1515 in Benevento , † March 11, 1570 in Rome ) was an Italian poet.
He lived in Naples and later in Venice , where he initially had a close friendship with Pietro Aretino . But soon both fell apart and from then on pursued each other with pasquilles .
Niccolò Franco lived for a long time in Casale with the governor of Montferrat , Siegmund Franzino . He later went to Mantua and then to Rome, where he was hanged in 1569 for his satirical attacks on Pope Pius V , after he had escaped severe punishment several times because of the protection of Cardinal Giovanni Morone for his offensive writings .
Among his works the most famous are the volgari pistol (Venice 1538–41), which first divided him with Pietro Aretino, and the Priapea (first Turin 1541); the latter consists of approx. 200 obscene sonnets , to which he added 257 anti-Aretino in a later edition (1548; reprinted with the Vendemmiatore des Tansillo under the printing location Peking , Par. 1790).
Web links
- Literature by and about Niccolò Franco in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Franco, Niccolò |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 13, 1515 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Benevento |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 11, 1570 |
| Place of death | Rome |