Zaccaria Betti (7 July 1732-1788) was an Italian poet, writing about agricultural topics. Born in

Verona Verona ( ; ; or ) is a city on the Adige, River Adige in Veneto, Italy, with 255,131 inhabitants. It is one of the seven provincial capitals of the region, and is the largest city Comune, municipality in the region and in Northeast Italy, nor ...

, he began studying under the

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in Brescia, but illness forced him to finish his studies in Verona. His main poem was ''del Baco da Seta, canti 4, con annotazione'' (dedicated to Marchese Giambattista Spolverini, 1736), mimicking the work ''Sereide'' by

Emanuele Tesauro Emanuele Tesauro (; 28 January 1592 – 26 February 1675) was an Italian philosopher, rhetorician, literary theorist, dramatist, Marinist poet, and historian. Tesauro left a considerable mark in the history of 17th century Italian culture and ...

. Betti's second work was a poem titled ''la Cascina''. He was an honorary member of the

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of Florence.Dizionario biografico universale
Volume 1, compiled by Gioacchino Maria Olivier-Poli, Naples (1824); page 287.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Betti Zaccaria 1732 births 1788 deaths 18th-century Italian poets 18th-century Italian male writers Italian poets Italian agronomists People from Verona 18th-century Venetian writers