Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (born 1552)

Gabriello Chiabrera

Italian poet and playwright, 1552–1638

Gabriello Chiabrera was an Italian poet, sometimes called the Italian Pindar. His "new metres and a Hellenic style enlarged the range of lyric forms available to later Italian poets." Chiabrera is routinely compared by Italian critics to his younger contemporary Giambattista…