Lodovico Dolce
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Lodovico Dolce (1508-1568) was an Italian theorist of painting. He was a broadly-based Venetian humanist and prolific author, translator and editor; he is now remembered for his Dialogue on Painting.
He edited a 1555 edition of Dante. As a dramatist he wrote numerous tragedies: Giocasta, Didone, Thieste, Medea, Ifigenia, Hecuba and Marianna. Il Marito was a comedy.
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- Lodovico Dolce, Renaissance Man of Letters, Ronnie H. Terpening (review)
