Ferrante Pallavicino | |
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| Born | 23 March 1615 |
| Died | 5 March 1644 (aged 28) |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, novelist |
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| Pen name | Sinifacio Spironcini |
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Ferrante Pallavicino (23 March 1615 – 5 March 1644) was an Italian writer of numerous antisocial and obscene stories and novels with biblical and profane themes, lampoons and satires in Venice which, according to Edward Muir, "were so popular that booksellers and printers bought them from him at a premium."[1] Pallavicino's scandalous satires, which cost him his head at the age of twenty-eight, were all published under pseudonyms or anonymously.
- ^ Edward Muir, The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance: Skeptics, Libertines and Opera (Cambridge: Harvard, 2007), p. 86