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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 721 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARINI (or See also:MARINO), GIAMBATTISTA (1569-1625)  , See also:Italian poet, was See also:born at See also:Naples on the 18th of See also:October 1569 . After a somewhat disreputable youth, during which he became known for his See also:Canzone de' baci, he secured the powerful patronage of See also:Cardinal Aldobrandini, whom he accompanied from See also:Rome to See also:Ravenna and See also:Turin . An edition of his poems, La See also:Lira, was published at See also:Venice in 1602-1614 . His ungoverned See also:pen and disordered See also:life compelled him to leave Turin and take See also:refuge from 1615 to 1622 in See also:Paris, where he was favourably recognized by See also:Marie de' See also:Medici . There his See also:long poem Adone was published in 1623 . He died at Naples on the 25th of See also:March 1625 . The See also:licence, extravagance and conceits of See also:Marini, the See also:chief of the school of " Secentisti " (see See also:ITALY: Literature), were characteristic of a See also:period of See also:literary decadence . See M . Menghini, G . B . Marini (Rome, 1888) .

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