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Boiardo (matteo-maria), count of Scandiano, an Italian poet, was born at the castle of Scandiano, near Reggio in Lombardy, about the year 1434. He studied at the university_of Ferrara, and remained in that City the greater part of his life, attached to the ducal court. He was particularly in great favour with the duke Borso and Hercules 1. His successor. He accompanied Borso in a journey to Rome in 1471, and the year following was se lected by Hercules to escort to Ferrara, Eleonora of Ara gon, his future duchess. In 1481 he was appointed go vernor of Reggio, and was also captain-general of Modena. He died at Reggio, Dec. He was one of the most learned and accomplished men of his time, a very distinguished Greek and Latin scholar, and at a time when Italian poetry was in credit, one of those poets who added to the reputation of his age and country. He translated Herodotus from the Greek into Italian, and Apuleius from the Latin. He wrote also Latin poetry, as his Carmen Bucolicum, eight eclogues in hexameters, dedicated to duke Hercules I. Reggio, 1500, 4to; Venice, 1528; and in Italian, Sonetti e Canzoni, Reggio, 1499, 4to; Ve nice, 1501, 4to, in a style rather easy than elegant, and.
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