Albertino Mussato
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Albertino Mussato (Padua, 1261 - Chioggia, 31 May 1329) was an Italian statesman and writer. He was a poet, chronicler of his times, and historian. He is considered as the reviver of literary Latin. His 1315 play Ecerinis[1] was the first Italian tragedy (written in Latin verse) identifiable as a Renaissance work.[2] It earned him a crown as Poet Laureate.
As well as for numerous works, he is known as the defender of poetry in a polemical exchange of letters, in 1317, with a Dominican friar, Giovannino of Mantua.[3]
