Giulio Cesare Croce

Carlo Baja Guarienti (Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia)

Ed. by Jo Ann Cavallo, Columbia University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.6.1: Italian Writing and Culture, 453-present.
Vol. editors: Carla Bregman (Independent Scholar - North America), Jo Ann Cavallo (Columbia University)

Dates

Born 1550
Died 1 Dec 1609
Activity c. 1568-1609

Places

Born in Italy
Active in Italy

Activities

Primary

Poet
Prose writer
Theatre actor

Resources

Croce's Works

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Giulio Cesare Croce was a poet, writer, playwright and

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(troubadour or storyteller), active principally in Bologna between 1568 and 1609. His output, in a great variety of genres and markedly plurilingual, comprises almost five hundred works: romances, plays, songs, laments, predictions, jokes and other genres of prose and poetry.

Croce was born in the town of San Giovanni in Persiceto, near Bologna, in 1550. Specifically – if we may rely on the information provided in his autobiographical Descrittione della vita del Croce; con vna esortatione fatta ad esso da varij animali ne’ lor linguaggi, à dover lasciare da parte la poesia [Description of the Life of Croce; With an Exhortation Made to him by Various Animals in their Languages to Abandon Poetry], printed in Bologna in

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Citation: Baja Guarienti, Carlo. "Giulio Cesare Croce". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 14 November 2020 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14646, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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