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Luigi Alamanni (1495–1556)
Alamanni, Luigi (ä-lä-män’nē). An Italian poet; born in Florence, Oct. 28, 1495; died at Amboise, France, April 18, 1556. At first in great favor, with Cardinal Giuliano de’ Medici, he became implicated in a conspiracy against the life of his patron, 1522, and had to flee to Venice and thence to France. On the expulsion of the Medici in 1527 he returned to Florence; but on their restoration in 1532 again took refuge in France, where Francis I. and Henry II. intrusted him with embassies to Charles V. and the republic of Genoa. His fame rests chiefly on the didactic poem on agriculture, ‘Cultivation’ (1533), one of the best imitations of Virgil’s ‘Georgics.’ He adapted two Arthurian stories to classic models. His satires influenced the work of the English poet, Sir Thomas Wyatt.