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SERAFINO AQUILA

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 249 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AQUILA  DELL' (1466-1500), See also:Italian poet and See also:improvisatore, was See also:born in 1466 at the See also:town of See also:Aquila, from which he took his name, and died in the See also:year 1500 . He spent several years at the courts of See also:Cardinal See also:Sforza and See also:Ferdinand, See also:duke of See also:Calabria; but his See also:principal patrons were the Borgias at See also:Rome, from whom he received many favours . Aquila seems to have aimed at an See also:imitation of See also:Dante and See also:Petrarch; and his poems, which were extravagantly praised during the author's lifetime, are occasionally of considerable merit . His reputation was in See also:great measure due to his remarkable skill as an improvisatore and musician . His See also:works were printed at See also:Venice in 1502, and there have been several subsequent See also:editions .

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