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PIETRO COSSA (183o-188o) , See also: Italian dramatist, was See also: born at See also: Rome in 1830, and claimed descent from the See also: family of See also: Pope See also: John
See also: XXIII., deposed by the council of See also: Constance
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He manifested an See also: independent spirit from his youth, and was expelled from a Jesuit school on the See also: double See also: charge of indocility and patriotism
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After fighting for the See also: Roman republic in 1849, he emigrated to See also: South See also: America, but failing to establish himself returned to See also: Italy, and lived precariously as a See also: literary See also: man until 1870, when his reputation was established by the unexpected success of his first acted tragedy, See also: Nero
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From this See also: time to his See also: death in 188o Cossa continued to produce a See also: play a See also: year, usually upon some classical subject
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See also: Cleopatra, Messalina, Julian, enjoyed See also: great popularity, and his dramas on subjects derived from Italian See also: history, See also: Rienzi and The Borgias, were also successful
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Plautus, a See also: comedy, was preferred by the author himself, and is more See also: original
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Cossa had neither the divination which would have enabled him to reconstruct the See also: ancient See also: world, nor the See also: imagination which would have enabled him to idealize it
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But he was an energetic writer, never tame or languid, and at the same time able to command the See also: attention of an See also: audience without recourse to melodramatic artifice; while his sonorous verse, if scarcely able to support the ordeal of the closet, is sufficiently near to See also: poetry for the purposes of the stage
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His collected Teatro poetico was published in 1887
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