Emanuele Tesauro [SEP] date of death
Emanuele Tesauro
Emanuele Tesauro (1592–1675) was a rhetorician, dramatist, Marinist poet, and historian from Turin.
His "Il Cannocchiale Aristotelico", originally published in 1654, is a work on tropes, literally the oxymoronic "Aristotelian telescope". Its main concern is the invention and wit of ingenious metaphors. It has been called "one of the most important statements of poetics in seventeenth-century Europe". Metaphor he calls the "Great Mother of All Witticisms". In Umberto Eco's "The Island
Girolamo Graziani (born 1604), Italian poet
- November 14 – Johannes Khuen (born 1606), Bavarian German priest, poet and composer
- Also – Emanuele Tesauro (born 1592), Italian rhetorician, dramatist, Marinist poet and historian
- Approximate date – William Mercer (born 1605), Scottish poet and army officer
See also.
- Poetry
- 17th century in poetry
- 17th century in literature
- Restoration literature