Giorgio Baffo

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

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.

Baffo died in 1768 in the Palazzo Bellavite, Venice.

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