Tifi Odasi

Michele di Bartolomeo degli Odasi (c. 1450–1492), pen name Tifi (dagli) Odasi (Latinized as Tifetus or Typhis Odaxius), was an Italian poet, the inventor of macaronic verse.

Very little is known of his biography, apart that he was born and died at Padua. He is best known as the author of Macaronea, a burlesque poem mixing Latin and Italian dialects (Tuscan and Venetian of Padua). It is one of the earliest examples - and the namesake - of macaronic verse ^[1].

Tifi has also been conjectured to be the author of another work in macaronic Latin, Nobile Vigoncae opus ("The Work of Noble Vigonza"), but that attribution is not widely accepted.

References

^ Giorgio Bernardi Perini, "Macaronica Verba. Il divenire di una trasgressione linguistica ne seno dell'umanesimo". [1]

External links

Tifi Odasi's biography in Biografias y Vidas (Spanish)
Tifi Odasi's biography in Isla Ternura (Spanish)

Persondata
Name	Odasi, Tifi
Alternative names
Short description	Poet, the inventor of macaronic verse
Date of birth
Place of birth	Padua, Italy
Date of death	1492
Place of death	Padua, Italy