Giovan Battista Pigna

Giovan Battista Pigna (1530-1575) was an Italian humanist, poet and historian from Ferrara. A reformer of the University of Ferrara, Pigna was secretary to Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara and court historian at Ferrara.[1]

Pigna's I romanzi (1554) argued that chivalric romances like those of Ariosto were a modern form of poetry equal to those considered by Aristotle's Poetics. Torquato Tasso, who succeeded Pigna as court historian, attacked Pigna's defence of Ariostan poetry in his Discorsi dell'arte poetica.[1]

Works

Statuta urbis Ferrariae nuper reformata, 1567

I romanzi di M. Giouan Battita Pigna ... divisi in tre libri. Ne quali della poesia, & della vita dell'Ariosto con nuouo modo si tratta , 1554
(ed.) Poetica Horatiana, 1561
Statuta urbis Ferrariae nuper reformata (in Latin). Ferrara: Francesco Rossi. 1567.
Statuta urbis Ferrariae nuper reformata (in Latin). Ferrara: Francesco Rossi. 1567.
Historia de principi di Este, 1570

References

Giovan Battista Pigna, Pathways through literature: Torquato Tasso. Accessed 12 May 2013.

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[Pathways-1] Giovan Battista Pigna, Pathways through literature: Torquato Tasso. Accessed 12 May 2013.