MARINI (or

See also:

• MARINO

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