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Vittorio Alfieri

Born on January 16, 1749

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Count Vittorio Amedeo Alfieri (also US:; Italian:; 16 January 1749 – 8 October 1803) was an Italian playwright and poet, considered the "founder of Italian tragedy." He wrote nineteen tragedies, sonnets, satires, a notable autobiography, and translated Virgil and other works from Latin and Greek.

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