Berni, Francesco

Berni, Francesco

▪ Italian poet and translator
born 1497/98, Lamporecchio, Tuscany [Italy]
died May 26, 1535, Florence
 poet and translator important for his Tuscan version of Matteo Boiardo's epic poem Orlando innamorato (1483) and for the distinctive style of his Italian burlesque, which was called bernesco and imitated by many poets.

      Berni spent his early years in Florence. In 1517 he entered the service of Cardinal Bernardo da Bibbiena and Bibbiena's nephew, Angelo Dovizi, and then went to Verona to serve as secretary to its bishop, Matteo Giberti. When he returned to Florence, Berni became enmeshed in court intrigues and, according to some sources, was poisoned for refusing to cooperate in a plan to kill Cardinal Giovanni Salviati.

      Berni's agile Tuscan translation of Orlando innamorato was for a long time preferred to Boiardo's original, which had been written in the difficult and less popular Ferrarese dialect. His La Catrina (1567), a lively rustic farce, was also highly regarded, though his fame rests squarely on his burlesque poetry. Most of this work appears in one of two forms: the tailed sonnet, to which he frequently gave three-line extensions; or the capitolo, a lengthy satiric poem written in terza rima. Some poems are savagely satirical, including those against his contemporaries the poet Pietro Aretino and Popes Adrian VI and Clement VII. His most masterly capitoli, however, are rollicking exaggerations on unimportant subjects (peaches, thistles, and a friend's shorn beard), which mock the lofty tone of contemporary Petrarchan verse.

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