Count Vittorio Amedeo Alfieri (, also , ; 16 January 17498 October 1803) was an Italiandramatist and poet, considered the "founder of Italian tragedy." He wrote nineteen tragedies, sonnets, satires, a notable autobiography, and translated Virgil and other works from Latin and Greek. Alfieri's work exerted a profound influence on British Romantic poetry.
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