Cesare Caporali (; 20 June 1531 – December 1601) was an Italian

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Biography

Caporali was born in Perugia on 20 June 1531. He lived some years at Rome in the service of cardinal

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. In Rome he attended literary clubs, striking up a friendship with

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and

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, as well as the large group of Umbrian scholars, including Trifone Benci, to whom he dedicated his famous ''capitolo della corte'', composed after his break with Della Corgna and at the time when he entered service of his new patron Ferdinando de' Medici. Caporali followed Ferdinando de' Medici in

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and was afterwards in the service of cardinal Ottavio Acquaviva in

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. He was a member of the Accademia degli Insensati and governor of

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and

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, two small towns in

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. Caporali died in 1601 in

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, in the house of Ascanio Della Cornia, one of his patrons.

Works

In his youth Caporali was passionately fond of reading and translating

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. His early works imitated the style of

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. Caporali published two

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poems in Berni’s style, ''Viaggio in Parnaso'' (Voyage to Parnassus) and ''Avvisi di Parnaso'' (News from Parnassus). The poems, written in approximately 1580, were published for the first time in Parma in 1582, in the volume entitled ''Rime piacevoli''. The two works were hugely influential and inspired

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's ''Viaje al Parnaso'',

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's ''Ragguagli di Parnaso'' and

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's ''Il Parnaso''. Among his other works the most notable are the poems ''Vita di Mecenate'' and ''Esequie di Mecenate'', poetic versions of the

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centred on

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, the model patron of literature.

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