LUIGI

See also:

• LUIGI PULCI (1431-1487)

PULCI (1431-1487)  , Italian poet, was born at Florence, of a well-connected family . His elder brother Luca (d..1470) was also a poet, author of Pistole, Driadeo d'amore, and Ciriffo Calvaneo . Luigi was patronized by Cosimo, Piero, and Lorenzo de' Medici, and was the author of various works in poetry and prose . He is famous, however, as the first to bring artistic romance into Italian literature in his heroic poem Morgante Maggiore (Venice, 1481), an epic of a giant converted to Christianity, who accompanies Orlando (Roland) .