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Name
  
Stefano Guazzo

Role
  
Writer

Died
  
1593, Pavia, Italy


Books
  
The civile conversation of M. Steeven Guazzo

Stefano guazzo visions


Stefano Guazzo ([ˈgwattso]; 1530–1593) was an Italian writer from Casale Monferrato.

Contents

Stefano guazzo e luca gualco aqua rosa


Biography

Guazzo studied law, and thereafter worked for Lodovico Gonzaga and other members of the family, for which he was active as a diplomat in France and the Papal States. In 1561, he and other colleagues founded the l'Accademia degli Illustrati in Casale Monferrato.

He died at Pavia, where he had moved to pursue his studies.

Works

Writings by Guazzo include:

  • The civil conversation (Bozzola, Brescia, 1574), treated in four books, in which, in the form of a dialogue between two parties (Hannibal and Knight), he addresses issues such as education and family and social life (online)
  • Dialoghi piacevoli (Bertano, Milan, 1586) (online)
  • Letters (Domenico Tarino, Turin, 1591) (online)
  • Choice of rhymes (Comino Ventura, Bergamo, 1592)
  • The garland of Countess Maria Angela Beccaria (posthumous, Bartoli, Genoa, 1595), a collection of madrigals by other authors dedicated to a noblewoman (id = qvT0jlpgh2cC online)
  • References

    Stefano Guazzo Wikipedia