Giambattista Marino (also Giovan Battista Marini) (14 October 1569 – 26 March 1625)Russo (ed.), Adone (BUR Classici, 2013), page 31 and page 41 was an Italian poet who was born in Naples. He is most famous for his epicL'Adone.
Giambattista Marino (also Giovan Battista Marini) (14 October 1569 – 26 March 1625)Russo (ed.), Adone (BUR Classici, 2013), page 31 and page 41 was an Italian poet who was born in Naples. He is most famous for his epicL'Adone.
The Cambridge History of Italian Literature thought him to be "one of the greatest Italian poets of all time". He is considered the founder of the school of Marinism, later known as Secentismo (17th century) or Marinismo (19th century), characterised by its use of extravagant and excessive conceits. Marino's conception of poetry, which exaggerated the artificiality of Mannerism, was based on an extensive use of antithesis and a whole range of wordplay, on lavish descriptions and a sensuous musicality of the verse, and enjoyed immense success in his time, comparable to that of Petrarch before him.
He remained the reference point for Baroque poetry as long as it was in vogue. In the 18th and 19th centuries, while being remembered for historical reasons, he was regarded as the source and exemplar of Baroque "bad taste". With the 20th century renaissance of interest in similar poetic procedures, his work has been reevaluated: it was closely read by Benedetto Croce and Carlo Calcaterra and has had numerous important interpreters including Giovanni Pozzi, Marziano Guglielminetti, Marzio Pieri and Alessandro Martini.
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