The Introduction of Classical Metres Into Italian Poetry and Their Development to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century A Dissertation (Classic Reprint)

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The introduction of classical metres into Italian poetry took place in the year 1441. Leon Battista Alberti was the first to reproduce the hexameter and the elegiac distich. Leonardo Dati introduced an imitation of the Sapphic ode in the same year. Ludovico Ariosto invented the unrhymed hendecasyllabic with a final proparoxyton, while Bernardo Tasso attempted to introduce a new system of hendecasyllabics in which the rhyme occurred as far apart as every fifth verse.

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