Vincenzo Monti
Vincenzo Monti (19 February 1754 – 13 October 1828) was an Italian
poet,
playwright,
translator, and scholar, the greatest interpreter of Italian
neoclassicism in all of its various phases. His verse translation of the ''
Iliad'' is considered one of the greatest of them all, with its iconic opening ("''Cantami, o Diva, del Pelide Achille,/L'ira funesta[...]''", lib. I, verses 1-2) becoming an extremely recognizable phrase among
Italians (for example, being the text shown when opening a
font file in
Microsoft Windows).
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