Antonio Francesco Grazzini

Antonio Francesco Grazzini ( born March 22, 1504 Florence, † February 18, 1584 in Milan ) was an Italian poet.

Antonio Francesco Grazzini was the profession by pharmacists, founded in 1540 in his native city, the Accademia degli Umidi and 1582 belonged to the founding members of the Accademia della Crusca, in which he ( " The bar " ) bore the name Il lasca or Leuciscus. He died in February 1584.

Grazzini has developed on the whole territory of comic literature (as epic poet, playwright and satirist ) is a great fertility, the most enduring reputation but in fact also be purchased as a novelist in the comic representation through its on Boccaccio anlehnende short story collection Le Cene (Paris 1756; Best ed, Milan 1815, 3 vols ).

The diction of this work is rooted in the refined vernacular and is advantageously distinguished at all elegance and correctness through living agility and popular freshness. His poems, mostly satirical and burlesque contents, appeared in several collections. Other works by him are the little comic epic poems:

• La Nanea (Florence 1566) and
• La guerra dei mostri (Florence 1584); further seven comedies ( Commedie sel in prose )
• L' arzigogolo (Florence 1750), inter alia,

A good selection of his works was Pietro Fanfani in Le cene ed altre prose (Florence 1857) and Commedie (Florence 1859).