Giovan Battista Pigna, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetGiovan Battista Pigna
Italian humanist
Date of Birth: 08-Apr-1529
Place of Birth: Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Date of Death: 04-Nov-1575
Profession: writer, poet
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Giovan Battista Pigna
- Giovan Battista Pigna (1530-1575) was an Italian humanist, poet and historian from Ferrara.
- A reformer of the University of Ferrara, Pigna was secretary to Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara and court historian at Ferrara.Pigna's I romanzi (1554) argued that chivalric romances like those of Ariosto were a modern form of poetry equal to those considered by Aristotle's Poetics.
- Torquato Tasso, who succeeded Pigna as court historian, attacked Pigna's defence of Ariostan poetry in his Discorsi dell'arte poetica.
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