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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 386 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DOLCE, LUDOVICO, or See also:LUIGI (15o8–i568 or 1569)  , See also:Italian writer, was a native of See also:Venice, and belonged to a See also:family of See also:honourable tradition but decadent See also:fortune . He received a See also:good See also:education, and See also:early undertook the task of maintaining himself by his See also:pen . See also:Translations from See also:Greek and Latin epics, satires, histories, plays and See also:treatises on See also:language and See also:art. followed each other in rapid See also:succession, till the whole number amounted to upwards of seventy See also:works . But he is now mainly memorable as the author of Marianna, a tragedy from the See also:life of See also:Herod, which was recast in See also:French by See also:Tristan and by See also:Voltaire, and still keeps a See also:place on the See also:stage . Four licentious comedies, Il Ragazzo (r54i), Il Capitano (1545), Il Marito (156o), Il Ruffiano (i56o), and seven of See also:Seneca's tragedies See also:complete the See also:list of his dramatic efforts . In one epic--to translate the See also:title-See also:page--" he has marvellously reduced into ottava rima and See also:united into one narrative the stories of the Iliad and the Aerieid "; in another he devotes See also:thirty-nine cantos to a certain Primaleone, son of Palmerius; in a third he celebrates the first exploits of See also:Count Orlando; and in a See also:fourth he sings of the See also:Paladin Sacripante . A life of the See also:emperor See also:Charles V. and a similar See also:account of See also:Ferdinand I., published respectively in 156o and 1;566, are his See also:chief See also:historical productions; and among his See also:minor treatises it is enough to mention the Osservazioni See also:sulla lingua volgare (1550) ; the Dialogo See also:delta picture (1557); and the Dialogo nel quale si ragiona del modo di accrescar la memoria (1552) .

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