PIETRO See also: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 See also: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 See also: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 (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to his See also:death in 188o See also: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, See also: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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See also: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 See also: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 See also:verse, if scarcely able to support the See also:ordeal of the closet, is sufficiently near to See also:poetry for the purposes of the See also:stage
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His collected Teatro poetico was published in 1887
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