AGOSTINI BECCARI
\ˌaɡəstˈiːnɪ bˈɛkɐɹˌi], \ˌaɡəstˈiːnɪ bˈɛkɐɹˌi], \ˌa_ɡ_ə_s_t_ˈiː_n_ɪ b_ˈɛ_k_ɐ_ɹ_ˌi]\
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An Italian pastoral poet; born in Ferrara, 1540 (?); died there (?) 1590. He wrote "The Sacrifice" (1554) before his fifteenth birthday, this piece being a pastoral in rather stilted metre and quite sophomoric in flavor; but as the maiden essay of the kind in literature, and as the model upon which Tasso constructed his "Aminta", it is not to be overlooked.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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