Giorgio Baffo

Zorzi (Giorgio) Alvise Baffo (11 August 1694 - 30 July 1768) was an Italian poet and senator of the Venetian Republic.[1][2]

Giorgio Baffo
Plaque commemorating Giorgio Baffo on the facade of Palace Bellavite in Venice

Baffo was born in Venice. He was, like Ruzante, Carlo Goldoni and Berto Barbarani, a major writer in the Venetian dialect. He wrote many erotic sonnets.[3]

Baffo died in 1768 in the Palazzo Bellavite, Venice.

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References
  1. Notes and Queries. Vol. IX. London: Oxford University Press. 1908. p. 258.
  2. Casanova, Giacomo; Casanova, Giacomo Chevalier de Seingalt (1997-05-22). History of My Life. JHU Press. pp. 326–327. ISBN 978-0-8018-5662-4.
  3. Sollers, Phillippe (2016-03-15). Casanova the Irresistible. University of Illinois Press. pp. 25–27. ISBN 978-0-252-09815-4.
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