Vincenzo da Filacaia
Vincenzo da Filacaia is an Italian lyric poet, born in 1642 with Florence, died in 1707.
Withdrawn in the countryside, it cultivated poetry in silence a long time, without thinking of nothing of publishing; but several odes which it composed during the delivery of Vienna and of the defeat of the Turks by Sobieski (1683) having been known, it enjoys a European reputation soon, and is lived required by the princes.
The large-duke of Toscane appointed it senator and the government of the town of Volterra gave him; the queen Christine of Sweden filled it benefits.
The collection of its poetries appeared in 1684, in-4, and was published in a more complete way by his/her son, Scipion da Filacaia, Florence, 1707. It appeared of it in 1762 an edition in 2 vol., of which the first container of Tuscan poetries, odes or canzone, sonnets, and the other of the Latin worms.
In addition to its odes on the expulsion of the Turks, its sonnets on Italy and Providence are also known.
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