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Giulio Dati, a Florentine poet. Born, 1560; died about 1630.
A lengthy poem, in ottava rima (founded upon the first letter of Columbus announcing his success), was composed in 1493, by Giulio Dati, the famous Florentine poet, and was sung in the streets of that city to publish the discovery of the New World. The full Italian text is to be found in R. H. Major's "Select Letters of Christopher Columbus," Hakluyt Society, 1871.
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Jean François Casimir Delavigne, a popular French poet and dramatist. Born at Havre, April 4, 1793; died at Lyons, December, 1843.